Motivational Quotes

Modesty

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet.

- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Best Quotes about Modesty

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.

Hazlitt, William

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.

Martineau, Harriet

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Diogenes of Sinope

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

Jackson, Jesse

Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Herford, Oliver

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Rostand, Jean

So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Modesty is the beauty of women.

Proverb, Gaelic

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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.

Switzer, Maurice

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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Be smart, but never show it.

Mayer, Louis B

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He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

Churchill, Winston

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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

Bevan, Aneurin

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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself.

Sitwell, Dame Edith

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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

Horace

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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

Du Bois, William E. B.

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That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Colby, Frank Moore

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To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Seneca

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It's always well to be the smartest thinker, but is won't get you very far unless you're the plainest talker.

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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

Girardin, Madame de

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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

Hazlitt, William

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Always remember when you are on top of the world , that the earth rotates every 24 hrs.

Makris, Steve G.

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She just wore enough for modesty; no more!

Buchanan, Robert

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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small.

Proverb, Jewish

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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.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Act as though you cannot fail but keep a humble spirit.

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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

Mandeville, Bernard

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It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help

Manners, Miss

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The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De