Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old modesty quotes, modesty sayings, and modesty proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.Ronald Reagan
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Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.Wendy Shalit
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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.Khalil Gibran
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Modesty forbids what the law does not.Seneca The Younger
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A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.Lawrence G. Lovasik
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Fear is a spirit that keeps you sitting, Boldness helps you to stand. Humility reminds us when to sit again, Pride never sits only stands.Marlon Carrillo
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Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.Oliver Herford
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.Jean de la Bruyère
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.Jean Rostand
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Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.Douglas Wilson
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A great man is always willing to be little.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.William Hazlitt
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.Oliver Goldsmith
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Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.Terry Pratchett
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The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.Mignon McLaughlin
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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.Richard Steele
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I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.Vladimir Nabokov
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So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.Juvenal
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We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions.Alphonsus Liguori
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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. Arthur Helps
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How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.Bernard of Clairvaux
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Wear modest, clean clothing. Your clothing doesn't need to be new and [it] should have some fashion of course, but [it] should be clean, modest, and neat. Be dignified in your outward manner and in your inward morality.Bruce R. McConkie
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Good taste is the modesty of the mind that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. Delphine de Girardin
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Modesty is the true citadel of beauty and virtue.Demades
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The modest person is usually admired if people ever hear of them.E. W. Howe
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Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.Emile de Girardin
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There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring. Evelyn Beatrice Hall
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Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge and the heart for truth.Francois Guizot