Modesty Quotes
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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
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You were created as a masterpiece and you are one of God's expressions of beauty. Short, tall, thin, thick, freckles, big eyes, small ones . . . it doesn't matter.
Dannah Gresh
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
William Hazlitt
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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Modesty is the citadel of beauty.
Demades
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
Seneca the Younger
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Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth; the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. . . . Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.
William Shakespeare
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Style is to see beauty in modesty.
Andree Putman
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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
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Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.
William E. Woodward
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Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.
Ezra Taft Benson
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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
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Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.
Honore de Balzac
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Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.
Wendy Shalit
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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius
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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
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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
