Modesty Quotes

• It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals.

  

  Alphonsus Rodriguez
  • Life
  • Modesty
  • Morals

• Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Confidence
  • Hurt

• 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.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Critics

• 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.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Done
  • Angels
  • Decency

• 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.

  

  Dannah Gresh
  • Firsts
  • Virtue
  • Internals

• A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Parents

• As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

  

  Wilfred Burchett
  • France
  • Demands
  • Subsequent

• 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.

  

  Will Durant
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Modesty

• 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.

  

  Aristotle
  • Feeling
  • Virtue
  • Disposition

• 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.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Fire
  • Humility
  • Modesty

• We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Wounds
  • Publish
  • Foul

• Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Red
  • New
  • Modesty

• 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.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Humility
  • Modesty
  • Hurtful

• At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

  

  Hector Berlioz
  • Modesty
  • Failings

• I want to work hard without forgetting our original intention and our modesty, for us to become artists that will grow.

  

  Choi Jun-hong B.A.P
  • Artists
  • Modesty

• Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Conduct
  • Familiarity
  • Lewdness

• I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Science
  • Taste
  • Biographies

• If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up." The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint. ... They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises.

  

  Bruce McCall
  • Forever
  • Attitude
  • Pride

• The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Modesty
  • Thunder

• I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Believe
  • Afraid
  • Old Women

• 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.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thinking
  • Blessing
  • Kissing

• Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Surprised
  • Hopes
  • Modesty

• Modesty is the highest elegance.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Modesty
  • Elegance

• Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thinking
  • Speak
  • Greatness

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