Best 234 quotes in «modesty quotes» category

Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

Modesty should accompany youth.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

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

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

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

Modesty and chastity are twins

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

Modesty is my best quality.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

Modesty is great, and quietness is nice, but sometimes it's much more fun to be decadent.

Modesty is humility expressed in dress.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls.

Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty

Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

Modesty and dew love the shade.

Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

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

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.

Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.

No American worth his salt should go looking around for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.

No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.

None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

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

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Our clothing, while modest and simple, should be of good quality . . . It should be chosen for durability rather than display.

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.