Modesty Quotes
To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?
Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.
They may seize On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand And steal immortal blessing from her lips, Who, even in pure and vestal modesty, Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.
Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.
I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
A girl's modesty is first noted by her external presentation, but if it's not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she still forfeits the power of her virtue.
The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue.
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!
The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?
Abundance is an expansion of energy. Abundance is a form of gratitude, a generosity, a modesty, a bow toward others - what we can give, what we can share, rather than what we can take.
Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.
Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.
Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open.
The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.
In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.
...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.
Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.
It is often the case with a new idea that when it comes knocking on society's door with modesty and the best premises for its existence, there is a tremendous outcry from inside.
Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties...
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.
There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.
