Best 234 quotes in «modesty quotes» category

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

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

Style is to see beauty in modesty.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

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.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected.

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

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

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.

The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.

There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety.

The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

The wearing of costly array is directly opposite to being adorned with good works. Nothing can be more evident than this; for the more you lay out on your own apparel, the less you have left to clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, to lodge the stranger, to relieve those that are sick and in prison.

Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

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

We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.

When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

Accepting help shames only the arrogant.

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness. Imperial Hotel note paper, Tokyo Japan, 1922

A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

Adela Rogers St. Johns, always the journalist closest to Gable, wrote that “The King is dead. Long live the King. There has been no successor, nor will be. The title died with him.” She recalled that Gable once told her, “I don’t believe I’m king of anything, but I know why they like to think I am. I’m not much of an actor, but I’m not bad unless it’s one of those things outside my comprehension. I work hard. I’m no Adonis, and I’m as American as the telephone poles I used to climb to make a living. So men don’t get sore if their women folks like me on the screen. I’m one of them, they know it, so it’s a compliment to them. They see me broke, in trouble, scared of things that go bump in the night, but I come out fighting. They see me making love to Jean Harlow or Claudette Colbert, and they say, ‘If he can do it, I can do it,’ and figure it’ll be fun to go home and to make love to their wives.

[A Letter to the Culture that Raised Me] I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I'm a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character. So I won't worship your beauty standards, and I don't submit to your fashion sense. My submission is to something higher.

A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.

An elephant does not need to pick a fight to let the whole jungle know of its strength.

But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a realistic assessment of the job to be done and one's ability to do it, then you might say the chief virtue of excellent artists is their modesty...But knowing your limits and going to them isn't arrogance. It's greatness of spirit.

An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth.

At that moment, noticing that his embroidered handkerchief was revealing part of its coloured edging, he thrust it back into his pocket with a startled glance, like a prudish but not innocent woman concealing bodily charms which in her excessive modesty she sees as wanton.

Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.