Motivational Quotes

Modesty

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

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Modesty

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

Hazlitt, William

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

Manners, Miss

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Joubert, Joseph

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She just wore enough for modesty; no more!

Buchanan, Robert

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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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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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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

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Horace

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Be smart, but never show it.

Mayer, Louis B

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Girardin, Madame de

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Seneca

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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.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Modesty is the beauty of women.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Howe, Edgar Watson