Modesty Quotes
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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.
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Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
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Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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True modesty is a discerning grace And only blushes in the proper place; But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, Where 'tis a shame to be asham'd t' appear: Humility the parent of the first, The last by vanity produc'd and nurs'd.
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
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Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
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Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.
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Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
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Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex – not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
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With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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False modesty is better than none.
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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
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Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal.
