Modesty Quotes - Page 16

• Modesty is the key to success

  Paul the Apostle

  Keys, Key To Success

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• Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty

  Nathanael Emmons

  Beautiful, Long, Veils

  Nathanael Emmons (1861). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D., Third Pastor of the Church in Franklin, Mass: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.101

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• His constant fight is with the Nafs (self-interest), the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this enemy man gains mastery over himself; this wins for him mastery over the whole universe, because the wall standing between the self and the Almighty has been broken down. Gentleness, mildness, respect, humility, modesty, self-denial, conscientiousness, tolerance and forgiveness are considered by the Sufi as the attributes which produce harmony within one's own soul as well as within that of another.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Crush, Wall, Humility

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• Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Time Passing, Excellent, Pastime

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.413, Oxford University Press

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• The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

  Joseph Addison

  Half, World, Next

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• Virtue which shuns, the day.

  Joseph Addison

  Virtue

  Joseph Addison (1733). “Cato: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants”, p.45

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• The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

  Joseph Addison

  Sleep, Pride, Gone

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• Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an artificial invention to that purpose. The same may be said of allegiance, of the laws of nations, of modesty, and of good manners. All these are mere human contrivances for the interest of society.

  David Hume

  Law, Justice, Good Man

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.984, David Hume

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• Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wine, Men, Drunk

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.64

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• It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.

  Bill Vaughan

  Firsts, Obstacles, Conquer

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• True modesty is a discerning grace
  And only blushes in the proper place;
  But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear,
  Where 'tis a shame to be asham'd t' appear:
  Humility the parent of the first,
  The last by vanity produc'd and nurs'd.

  William Cowper

  Humility, Vanity, Parent

  William Cowper (1852). “Poems”, p.125

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• The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

  Henry Fielding

  Soldier, Lasts, Firsts

  Henry Fielding (1824). “The Works of Henry Fielding, with a Life of the Author: Plays”, p.282

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• The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.

  Anne Lamott

  Flower, Ordinary, World

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.65, Penguin

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• Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Humility, Sobriety, Mind

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• In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.

  Jose Saramago

  Kings, Weakness, Would Be

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• The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true that the more things are secreted the more intriguing they become, because it is always the forbidden that has the strongest appeal. Nudity is a state of fact - lewdity a state of mind.

  Paul Outerbridge

  Mind, Trying, Facts

  Graham Howe, Paul Outerbridge, Jacqueline Markham (1980). “Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs”

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• A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

  Ambrose

  Humility, Years, Giving

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• Modesty is not one of my virtues.

  Alan King

  Virtue

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Different, Guidelines

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• Inspirational Quotes on: Honesty, Simplicity, Secret, Universe, Modesty, Peace
  Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Book, Simplicity

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• If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

  Clement of Alexandria

  Thinking, Doe, Rejecting

  "The Instructor (Complete)".

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• Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.

  Yasuhiro Konishi

  Art, Character, Doe

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• The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.

  Mason Cooley

  Cameras, Youth, Knows

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• Very few men can speak of Nature, for instance, with any truth. They overstep her modesty, somehow or other, and confer no favor.They do not speak a good word for her. Most cry better than they speak, and you can get more nature out of them by pinching than by addressing them. The surliness with which the woodchopper speaks of his woods, handling them as indifferently as his axe, is better than the mealy-mouthed enthusiasm of the lover of nature. Better that the primrose by the river's brim be a yellow primrose, and nothing more, than that it be something less.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Men, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.76, Xist Publishing

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• When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, People, Praise

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