Best 234 quotes in «modesty quotes» category

When you have nothing, be hopeful; when you have little, be grateful; when you have much, be sensible; when you have everything, be humble.

When you know who you are, you won’t have false modesty

- Why you? - (...) I’m the best. - Modest of you. - I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.

You are a worthy competitor, the best rival I ever encountered, it is an honour to be your opponent, you are better than me at many things, but you cannot beat me at politeness.

With a modest amount of looks and talent and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into more than half a century of good fortune.

You can be the most talented, the most intelligent or the most successful man in the world, but if you're not a modest person, then you can never get rid of being a very repulsive person!

You don’t get to decide the truth. Other people have their own experiences, just as valid. This is easy to forget. Your slice of life seems so large and unmistakeable, like a mirage of wholeness from where you stand. But it is your job to know better and not confuse your small piece for the whole, even if you sometimes forget. Life is big—much bigger than just yours. This is the only note to self: other people are real. That’s all there is to learn.

You do not attain success when you associate with those in high positions, It comes when you accept yourself and realize that only you can take yourself to where your heart truly lies.

And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.

A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.

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.

Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested.

A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

And the meek shall inherit the earth.

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

Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties...

As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

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

Be not too great a niggard in the commendations of him that professes thy own quality: if he deserve thy praise, thou hast discovered thy judgment; if not, thy modesty: honor either returns or reflects to the giver.

Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.

Be smart, but never show it.

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

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.

Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.

But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.

By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own modesty.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.

Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.

For those women sin against God when they rub their skin with ointments, stain their cheeks with rouge, and make their eyes prominent with antimony. To them, I suppose, the artistic skill of God is displeasing!

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

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

If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.

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.

I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals.

I have huge legs, and I never show them - not because of false modesty, I'm just not comfortable.

I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

I like working on one - camera. This is not false modesty, but I don't think I'm very good at three - camera. And it's not that I'm nervous, but I just sort of feel like my collar is too small, or my clothes don't fit. I don't understand what that is. And I don't understand the format: There's an audience in front of you that you're playing to, but there are also these cameras.

Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.

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