Modesty Quotes

• Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.

  

  Wayne Gerard Trotman
  • Virtue
  • Careful
  • Hindrance

• Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Generosity
  • Modesty
  • Wins

• 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
  • Pride
  • Values
  • Setting

• When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Modesty
  • Revive
  • Perished

• Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

  

  Demades
  • Beauty
  • Modesty
  • Citadel

• 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
  • Work
  • Teach
  • Economy

• 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.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Speak
  • Teach
  • Intimate

• Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Virtues
  • Modesty
  • Vastly

• Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

  

  Ada Leverson
  • Have
  • Modesty
  • Merit

• Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Virtue
  • Policy
  • Modesty

• Modesty is good. But take your credit. You can't always count on other people to offer it.

  

  Alexander C. Irvine
  • Credit
  • Modesty
  • Count

• The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Society
  • Marriage
  • Obsession

• Style is to see beauty in modesty.

  

  Andree Putman
  • Style
  • Beauty
  • Modesty

• Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds of propriety for our sakes, and throws herself unblushingly at our heads, we conclude it is either from a sudden and violent liking, or from extraordinary merit on our parts, either of which is enough to turn any man's head who has a single spark of gallantry or vanity in his composition.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Women
  • Enough
  • Reputation

• He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

  

  Confucius
  • Words
  • Modesty
  • Speaks

• We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.

  

  William Penn
  • Soul
  • Rich
  • Shining

• All modesty aside, I think I'm good at reading scripts. The way I read a script is as fast as I can, all in one sitting, and I don't read many of the stage directions. I only read enough stage directions to let me know where I am, because they're always so verbose and mostly horseshit. So I only read the dialogue, which allows me to see the movie in my mind's eye in real time.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Reading

• So they, who climb to wealth, forget The friends in darker fortunes tried. I copied them--but I regret That I should ape the ways of pride.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Pride
  • Forget
  • Regret

• You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Modesty
  • Acquire
  • Preserve

• Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Return
  • Modesty

• It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

  

  Ninon de L'Enclos
  • Value
  • Modesty
  • Boldness

• If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes.

  

  Thomas More
  • Risk
  • Charity
  • Common

• We live in a highly competitive world - and we Indians have to struggle to catch up. So modesty is necessary, even if there is also a need for a certain amount of national pride. When it comes down to it, we have managed our country's economy poorly for long enough. There is really no reason to now think that we can conquer the world.

  

  Ratan Tata
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Long

• It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Thinking
  • Modesty

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