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• In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

  Cyrus the Great

  Kindness, Adversity, Men

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• The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given - all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

  Frederic William Maitland

  Gratitude, Memories, Knowledge

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• That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some of them, conduct themselves flamboyantly in public. But alone with the work they are chaste and humble. They know they are not the source of the creations they bring into being. They only facilitate. They carry. They are the willing and skilled instruments of the gods and goddesses they serve.

  Steven Pressfield

  Humility, Humble, Warrior

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.163, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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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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• In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester United.

  Matt Busby

  Country, Clubs, Manchester United

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• Modesty was made for the ugly.

  Theophile Gautier

  Ugly, Made

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• Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Special, Acting, Suits

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

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• The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

  Barbara Cartland

  England And America, People, Majority

  Interview in Wendy Leigh's Speaking Frankly, 1978.

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• Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

  Rumi

  Running, Anger, Night

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

  Zach Hunter

  Self, Guy, Deals

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• First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

  Saint Basil

  Should Have, Voice, Silence

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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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• Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspirational, Real, Self

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.257, Cambridge University Press

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• Such an act
  That blurs the grace and blush of modesty;
  Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose
  From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
  And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows
  As false as dicers' oaths.

  William Shakespeare

  Hypocrite, Rose, Grace

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.368, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Doubt, Fool, Speak

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.44, Cosimo Classics

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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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• The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

  Max Beerbohm

  Balance, Popularity, Conceit

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

  Martin Feldstein

  Real, Fluctuation, Inflation

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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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