Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Modesty

• There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Peers, Noble

• Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Winning, Generosity, Favour

• Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Courage, Color, Hypocrisy

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