Modesty Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

  David Halberstam

  Sometimes, Virtue, Battlefields

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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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• Be merciful, moderate, and modest.

  Laozi

  Modest, Merciful, Moderates

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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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• Honor modesty more than your life.

  Aeschylus

  Life, Honor

  Aeschylus (1956). “Aeschylus: The suppliant maidens, The Persians, translated by S. G. Benardete. Seven against Thebes, Prometheus bound, translated by D. Grene”

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• No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.

  John Ruskin

  Real, Heart, Mean

  "Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain".

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• Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue - just as fertile soul quickly becomes dry and arid and produces nothing but thorns and thistles if it is not cultivated.

  John Climacus

  Attachment, Soul, Dry

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• Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.

  Dean Koontz

  Self, Earth, Shyness

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• It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals.

  Alphonsus Rodriguez

  Teaching, Mean, Eye

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• I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Food, Worry, Cooking

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• If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pride, Add, Wit

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.105, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Writing, Vanity, Cells

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

  Paul Rand

  Inspirational, Ideas, Goal

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• We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

  Paulo Coelho

  Humility, Honest, Servility

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• Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Art, Play, Numbers

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building A Character”, p.272, Routledge

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• I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

  Julian Baggini

  Thinking, Charity, Sincerity

  "Give me a reasonable believer over an uncompromising atheist any day" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2012.

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• A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Insult, Presumption

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.91

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• When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, People, Praise

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• Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Greatness, Men, Use

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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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• To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

  David Bowie

  Couple, Life And Death, Musician

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire Interview, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

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

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Different, Guidelines

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• The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Men, Generosity, Envy

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• Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

  Major Taylor

  Success, Champion, Typical

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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