Modest Quotes - Page 3

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

The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.

Avoid failing, not only against purity, but even against the least rules of an exact modesty.

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.

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

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

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!

It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not.

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

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

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.

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

Modest humility is beauty's crown.

What is beauty, but an extension of modesty?

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

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.

Modesty is my best quality.

To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

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.

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.