Modesty Quotes
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.
Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.
As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.
Inspirational Quotes on: Honesty, Simplicity, Secret, Universe, Modesty, Peace Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.
Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty
There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.
Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.
If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.
Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.
The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.
It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.
Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
