Modesty Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

  Jean Cocteau

  Blind, Outrage, Constant

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.

  William Penn

  Shining, Soul, Doe

  William Penn (2003). “Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life”, Herald Press (VA)

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• If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up." The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint. ... They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises.

  Bruce McCall

  Attitude, Pride, Ideas

  Bruce McCall (1999). “Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada”, Vintage

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• Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned them, do not despair of yourself. For both ruin and recovery are from within.

  Epictetus

  Recovery, Fighting, Over You

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.354

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• Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.

  Ian Hislop

  Pride, Proud, Modest

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• To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Speak Less, Pay

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.614, Delphi Classics

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• I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.

  Mila Kunis

  Honesty, Mean, Men

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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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• Modesty is the key to success

  Paul the Apostle

  Keys, Key To Success

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• He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Obedience, Worthy, Commanders

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Legibus, III. 2, p. 564, 1922.

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• Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Thinking, Shining, Guilt

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• ...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Husband, Men, World

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.

  Pope Pius XII

  Insidious, Justify, Seems

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• Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Skirts, Kicks, Creatures

  Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.33, Quirk Books

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• And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Pride, Vanity

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• I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

  Jane Austen

  Accomplishment, Half, World

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.409, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ambition, Ignorance, Civilization

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

  Milan Kundera

  Jealousy, Touching, Quality

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and infected hearts scarcely speak to any, either of the same or a different sex, without causing them to fall in some degree from purity; they have poison in their eyes and in their breath, like basilisks. On the contrary, keep company with the chaste and virtuous; often meditate upon and read holy things; for the word of God is chaste, and makes those also chaste that delight in it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Sex, Fall, Eye

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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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