Top 100 Quotes About Modesty
#1. Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.
Pablo Picasso
#2. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry Truman
#3. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#4. I am beauty, courage, honor, hope and modesty. They are my steady hold, my purity, confidence, pride, and safety. Apart, we are broken. But together, we are whole again.
Kristan Billups
#5. Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.
Kangana Ranaut
#6. How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.
Laozi
#7. Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
Jules Renard
#8. Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.
Louisa May Alcott
#9. Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
Bernard De Mandeville
#10. He felt a frisson of shyness when he pulled his shirt off, but he firmly told his modesty it could go fuck itself in the bathroom with that giant cockroach and continued undressing.
M. Jules Aedin
#11. Now. Now, Annwyl. No need to curtsy. A simple nod of your head and absolute worship will be more than enough.
G.A. Aiken
#12. Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#13. Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
Thornton Wilder
#14. People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.
Vance Havner
#16. The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness
Donald Bradman
#17. 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?
Rivka Galchen
#18. Modesty should accompany youth.
Plautus
#19. clinging to modesty in the age of the Others is like sacrificing a goat to make it rain.
Rick Yancey
#20. A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
Joseph Addison
#22. Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide,
First strip off all her equipage of Pride,
Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,
Or Learning's Luxury or idleness,
Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain
Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
Alexander Pope
#23. 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.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#24. Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.
Antonio De Oliveira Salazar
#25. The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the noble weather of their own minds and those productions which seem remarkable to us are little better than a day's routine to them.
Thornton Wilder
#26. Motivational Quotes on: Honesty, Success, Kind
There was a tremendous modesty in the man as he spoke, a quietness and dignity. There was a simplicity and honesty and unselfconsciousness, and a tremendous peace.
Walter Russell
#27. First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.
Saint Basil
#28. One of the problems with sex education ... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.
James Dobson
#29. Modesty in an actor is as fake as passion in a call girl.
Jackie Gleason
#30. Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#31. True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.
Joseph Addison
#32. And from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on the world's room, Oak walked unassumingly and with a faintly perceptible bend, yet distinct from a bowing of the shoulders.
Thomas Hardy
#35. But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my delight in his fine and tender play. ( ... ) Proof surprises us with its aliveness and intelligent modesty, and we have not met these characters before.
John Heilpern
#37. Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
Douglas William Jerrold
#38. 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.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#39. Only real good Energy has Good Results.
I serve by modesty and simplicity,
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
September 25, 2016
Petra Hermans
#42. After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
Michel De Montaigne
#43. A willingness to be pleased requires modesty and even innocence
easy to deride as mawkish and sentimental.
Gretchen Rubin
#44. But, alas, that was crap. She'd been had by a con man - simple as that. His modesty had been a way to cover up his true self. Call it instinct or women's intuition or going with your gut - whenever Wendy had done that, she had been wrong. "I
Harlan Coben
#45. Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.
Chris Evans
#46. 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
#47. We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions.
Alphonsus Liguori
#48. If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
Sarah Fielding
#49. Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.
Margaret Of Valois
#50. To Islamize doesn't make sense to me. But to center, but to have intellectual empathy and modesty - all these dimensions are important on how we look at truth.
Tariq Ramadan
#51. If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.
Hannah More
#52. There is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt an amazing connection, a sense that this cloth binds us in some kind of universal sisterhood.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#53. Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Erich Maria Remarque
#54. It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit
the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#56. Modesty is of no use to a beggar.
Homer
#57. Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.
Marcus Aurelius
#58. I grew up in South Jamaica, Queens, in New York. My parents were very religious churchgoing people. They were very strict. I was never really allowed to indulge in anything vain. Modesty always. I have three brothers and two sisters, so everything was on a budget.
Wynter Gordon
#59. No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
Wyndham Lewis
#60. In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.
Kim Campbell
#61. Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.
Antonya Nelson
#62. The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected.
Howard W. Hunter
#63. A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, 'I am everyone's servant.' Then the whole universe will bow down to us.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#64. Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.
Yasuhiro Konishi
#65. Should my decease happen in Newcastle I desire that my remains may be laid near the south porch in Saint Andrews churchyard near the remains of my dear wife, and that the least possible expence may be laid out on my interment. Charles Avison
Charles Avison
#66. No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools; for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#67. Modesty and decency dwell in the mind, not in a burka.
Nadeem Aslam
#68. As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.
Plutarch
#69. Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#70. None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.
Maureen Howard
#71. The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.
William Hazlitt
#72. Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Joseph Addison
#73. With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.
Tom Glazer
#74. It rarely adds anything to say, 'In my opinion' - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
Paul Goodman
#75. Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.
John Adams
#76. True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.
William Hazlitt
#77. Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.
Robert Schumann
#78. Recently in mixed company ... I ventured to make the claim ( not without some show of humility and modesty ) that I was the greatest living swine.
Flann O'Brien
#79. Ah. Ah! A man of modesty, either so false that it may be true or so true that it seems entirely false. I can see why Bayard speaks so well of you, sir.
Jim Butcher
#80. Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,
the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,
the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#81. Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#82. 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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#83. Modesty is a learned adaptation. It's stuck on like decals. As soon as life slams a modest person against the wall, that modesty will fall off faster than a G-string will fall off a stripper.
Maya Angelou
#85. 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
Nathanael Emmons
#86. I'm supposed to quote myself? Seriously? I know I'm a clever wench, but modesty muffles my ego.
K.Z. Snow
#87. Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity and greed, of faith and doubt, in short the fragrance of what we might have been and the smell of what we are ...
Dean Koontz
#89. The truth is rarely buried; it is merely lying in wait behind veils of modesty, pain, or indifference; the one necessary prerequisite is a passionate desire to lift the veils.
Amin Maalouf
#90. Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.
Linda Chavez
#91. On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang and in-words. It won't be long before 'brill' sounds as dated as 'super' does now. [Uncle Happy, 1990]
Peter O'Donnell
#93. Can it be chat modesty may more betray
Our sense than woman's lightness?
William Shakespeare
#94. We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.
Pope Pius XI
#95. Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
Herodotus
#96. Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul's possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level
Gustave Flaubert
#97. Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre Maurois
#99. I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.
Jane Austen
#100. There's nothing sweeter than a real friend:
Not only is he prompt to lend
An angler delicate, he fishes
The very deepest of your wishes,
And spares your modesty the task
His friendly aid to ask.
A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear,
When pointing at the object dear.
Jean De La Fontaine
