Modesty Quotes - page 7

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman. (Ezra Taft Benson)
His modesty amounts to deformity. View quote
Margot Asquith
It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Modesty is my best quality. View quote
Jack Benny
It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work. View quote
György Ligeti
I do not presume to preach to anyone; I do not consider myself a preacher or a teacher. Were it not that I am responsible for the book, I would prefer that my personality be not named as its author. The greatness of the subjects about which I offer information, relieves and frees me from self-conceit and forbids the plea of modesty. View quote
Harold W. Percival
Modesty restrains weak love, but it is a weak bridle to powerful love. View quote
Torquato Tasso
To have left undone what thou shouldst have done: to have lost the faithfulness, the reverence, the modesty that is in thee! View quote
Epictetus
We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility - in other people. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here.' I find it vaguely sinister, even. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops. View quote
Maya Angelou
Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility. View quote
Maya Angelou
I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out. View quote
Maya Angelou
Hayek expressed the greatest praise for Popper. Whether this was Hayek's ultimate view or a reflection of a deep, though subordinate, strain of personal modesty and humility that ran through him is an open question. Hayek's support was vital in Popper's career. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Hayek was involved with an unsuccessful effort to obtain the Nobel Prize in Literature for Popper. View quote
Alan O. Ebenstein
For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people. View quote
Queen Rania of Jordan
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return. View quote
Seneca
In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester United. (Matt Busby)
Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity. View quote
Elvis Costello
Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts They still think they're the gods of antiquity If something you missed didn't even exist It was just an ideal - is it such a surprise? View quote
Elvis Costello
There's a proud modesty in merit averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks. View quote
John Dryden
Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star. View quote
Rem Koolhaas