Modesty Quotes - Page 17

• When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I believe to be essential in addition to skill. They are that the person conducts his or her life with dignity, with integrity, courage, and perhaps most of all, with modesty. These virtues are totally compatible with pride, ambition, and competitiveness

  Donald Bradman

  Sports, Integrity, Believe

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• I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Arrogance, Honest, Hypocritical

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• Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Awkward, Rudeness

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• A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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• Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

  John Tillotson

  Confidence, Hurt, Men

  John Tillotson (1714). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: containing fifty four sermons and discourses on several occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith. Being all that were published by His Grace himself and now collected into one volume, to which is added an alphabetical table of the principle matter”, p.530

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• A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

  Mason Cooley

  Seduction, Modest, Demeanor

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• We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility - in other people.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Heart, Humility, People

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Beauty, Generosity, Heroism

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• One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Cities, People

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• The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.

  Mason Cooley

  Cameras, Youth, Knows

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• Inspirational Quotes on: Honesty, Simplicity, Secret, Universe, Modesty, Peace
  Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Book, Simplicity

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• I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

  John Donne

  Honesty, Integrity, Yield

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• A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Farming, Farmers, Dependent

  Bharati Mukherjee (2007). “Jasmine”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Gambling, Dignity, Forget

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• Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

  Seneca the Younger

  Return, Knows

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• I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.

  Harriet Martineau

  Thinking, People, Infant

  Harriet Martineau (1849). “Household Education”, p.294

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• Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

  Ada Leverson

  People, Merit, Appearance

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• Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.

  Fanny Kemble

  Female, Diamond, Settings

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• In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

  Margaret Deland

  Self, Connections, Birth

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Iron Woman”, p.236, The Floating Press

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• In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.

  Shana Alexander

  Acceptance, Cult Of Personality, Quality

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• Modesty is of no use to a beggar.

  Homer

  Humble, Use, Beggar

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• You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew.

  Richard Baxter

  Doors, Devil, Done

  Richard Baxter (1815). “The poor man's best companion: in plain and familiar dialogues. With forms of prayer for various uses ... By the Rev. Richard Baxter”, p.221

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• When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

  Madame de Stael

  Ambition, Men, Political

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• It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the highest beauty, that which is imperishable. No outward adorning can compare in value or loveliness with that "meek and quiet spirit."

  Ellen G. White

  Love Is, Desire, Firsts

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book IV of IV”, p.1679, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Be smart, but never show it.

  Louis B. Mayer

  Smart, Cinema, Stay Humble

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

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