Modesty Quotes

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

  Lord Chesterfield

  Humility, Bait, Praise

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.341

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

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Sex, Blue Dress

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear name tags. The more people talk about their own skills, the more desperate they are—their work should speak for itself.

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Wise, Work, Intelligent

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• Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

  Joseph Addison

  Ornaments, Literature, Virtue

  Joseph Addison (1721). “THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq; In FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME the THIRD”, p.218

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• The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Girl, Veils, Modest

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Confucius, Mencius, Ssǔ shu, Wu king, Shu Ching (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.148

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• A great man is always willing to be little.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Spiritual, Integrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Compensation and Self-Reliance”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Modesty is the conscience of the body.

  Honore de Balzac

  Humility, Body, Conscience

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.366, The Floating Press

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• Never forget the favors done for you. Always forget the favors you’ve done for others.

  Omar Suleiman

  Humble, Helping Others, Done

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Mar 05, 2013

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• It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

  Judith Martin

  Humble, Humility, Quality

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• Humility is the first step towards learning. You can’t learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Learning, Humble, Humility

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jan 12, 2013

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• How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Beautiful, Virtue, Gems

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

  Jean Rostand

  Watches

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Modesty died when clothes were born.

  Mark Twain

  Fashion, Clothes, Born

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.281, Courier Corporation

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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

  Nature, Retirement, Kindness

  "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

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• You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

  Juan Manuel Fangio

  Motivational, Believe, Ambition

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• Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Sex, Children

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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

  Fashion, Should Have, Needs

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• Parents and leaders should give early help to the blase girl who is often overpainted and underdressed. She is the picture of an unhappy girl whose physical adornments, to her thinking, don't invite adequate attention. Heaven help the girl who gets the kind of attention she is seeking by being overpainted and underdressed! She will rue the day, of course, when she gets the kind of attention her flagrant invitation is giving.

  Mark E. Petersen

  Girl, Thinking, Giving

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• I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round hell if by so doing he can make us believe that we have a single virtue which we have not. And he is right, for such ideas are very harmful, and such imaginary virtues, when they come from this source, are never unaccompanied by vainglory; just as those which God gives are free both from this and from pride.

  Teresa of Avila

  Running, Believe, Humility

  St. Teresa of Avila (2013). “Interior Castle”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• You wonderful girls, dress modestly and keep yourselves physically clean. Be cheerful and happy. Be positive about life. Then the Holy Spirit will cause you to be more beautiful and attractive. And when a faithful priesthood bearer comes to carry you away on his white horse-which might be an '84 Ford-to the temple, you will be prepared in every way.'

  F. Melvin Hammond

  Beautiful, Girl, Horse

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

  Roger Moore

  Blessed, Musical Ability, Looks

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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Virtue, Breasts, Stoops

  Oliver Goldsmith (1801). “The Beauties of Goldsmith”, p.121

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• Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Virtue, Economy, Overrated

  John Kenneth Galbraith, J. Ron Stanfield, Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield (2004). “Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith”, p.197, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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.

  William Hazlitt

  Real, Humility, Virtue

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.108

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