Modesty Quotes

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

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

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

"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

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

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

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

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

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

Modesty is the color of virtue.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

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

Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

Modesty is my best quality.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.