Modesty Quotes - Page 9

• He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind.

  Francine Pascal

  Smart, Mind, Waste

  Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Sarcastic, Humility

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• There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Love Is, Men, Two

  Miguel de Cervantes (2000). “Don Quixote”, p.1050, Modern Library

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• Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level

  Gustave Flaubert

  Soul, Identity, Levels

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• We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.

  Pope Pius XI

  Girl, Dresses, Purity

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

  Wilfred Burchett

  Demand, France, Dealings

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

  Jeremy Collier

  Thinking, Giving, Imperfection

  Jeremy Collier (1722). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: In Two Parts. ...”, p.19

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• 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.

  James Dobson

  Girl, Sex, Kids

  "Focus on the Family with Dr. James C. Dobson" by James C. Dobson, volumes 19-20, 1995.

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• 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.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Home, Mean, Persons

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• I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

  Walter Hill

  Mean, Thinking, Criticism

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

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• You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.

  Maya Angelou

  Humility, Want, Paid

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• The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Art, Arrogance, Trends

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• If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal.

  Zach Hunter

  Self, Guy, Deals

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• God looks at the heart, and we shouldn't judge by appearance . . . but we still live on the earth, and everyone here looks at the exterior, because only God sees the interior.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Heart, Judging, Looks

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• Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Mean, Opposites, Apparel

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• Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking of is being like a prostitute.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Christian, Thinking, Dresses

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• Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Majority, Holiness, Want

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.42, Revell

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• It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be distracting to men who are trying to keep their minds on God.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Men, Mind, Church

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• Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.

  Martin Feldstein

  Real, Fluctuation, Inflation

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• 'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.

  Thomas Huxley

  Christian, Infidelity, Term

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• Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Catholic, Purity, Incitement

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• There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Vanity, Hypocrisy, Virtue

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• Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game

  Will Durant

  Learning, Player, Games

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• Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.

  Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

  Magic, Excess, Conjuring

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• As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to be bold, so poignant it does not have to be pretty, so true it does not have to be real. Shibumi is understanding, rather than knowledge. Eloquent silence. In demeanor, it is modesty without pudency. In art, where the spirit of shibumi takes the form of sabi, it is elegant simplicity, articulate brevity. In philosophy, where shibumi emerges as wabi, it is spiritual tranquility that is not passive; it is being without the angst of becoming.

  Trevanian

  Spiritual, Art, Real

  Trevanian (2005). “Shibumi: A Novel”, p.77, Broadway Books

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