Maya Angelou Quotes About Modesty

• 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, Modesty

• Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'

  Maya Angelou

  Humility, Compassion, Modesty

• I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals.

  Maya Angelou

  Religious, Responsibility, Modesty

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

  Maya Angelou

  Wall, Modesty, Slam

• I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

  Maya Angelou

  Modesty, Stuck Up, Stuck

  Source: www.npr.org

• I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

  Maya Angelou

  Religious, Humility, Responsibility

  Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

• I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Modesty, Virtue

  "Maya Angelou on Integrity", www.achievement.org.

• Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Humility, Thinking

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