Modesty Quotes - Page 3

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.

Modesty is my best quality.

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.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

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

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

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

Modesty needs to come from the heart.

If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

Style is to see beauty in modesty.

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

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

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

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

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

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

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.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.