Modesty Quotes

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.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

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.

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.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

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

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

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

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

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

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.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

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

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

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

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.