Modesty Quotes - Page 2

• I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

  Edith Sitwell

  Time, Thinking, Busy

  In Observer 30 Apr. 1950

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• Modesty becomes a young man.
  [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]

  Plautus

  Men, Young, Young Man

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• No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Humble

  William Law (2013). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life”, p.233, Courier Corporation

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• A clean and well-cared for appearance should be maintained. Hair styles should be clean and neat, avoiding extreme styles. Mens' hair should be trimmed above the collar, leaving the ears uncovered. If worn, mustaches should be neatly trimmed. Earrings for men are unacceptable, and beards are not acceptable, except for certified medical reasons.

  Harold B. Lee

  Men, Hair, Leaving

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• Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.

  William Shenstone

  Prudent, Be Careful, Amiable

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.42

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

  Maya Angelou

  Wall, Slam, Persons

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• There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Peers, Noble

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• True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

  Augustus William Hare

  Ignorance, Doe, Merit

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.6

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• These principles with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in the most delicate and decisive period of formation, that, namely, of adolescence; and in gymnastic exercises and deportment special care must be had of Christian modesty in young women and girls which is so gravely impaired by any kind of exhibition in public.

  Pope Pius XI

  Girl, Christian, School

  Catholic Church. Pope, Pope Pius XI, Gerald C. Treacy, Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI). (1939). “Five great encyclicals: Labor - education - marriage -reconstructing the social order - atheistic communism”

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• The diabolical work that has taken place since the legalization of abortion is that it has destroyed, in those tragic women who have allowed their child to be murdered, their sense for the sacredness of maternity. Abortion not only murders the innocent; it spiritually murders women... the wound created in their souls is so great that only God's grace can heal it. The very soul of a woman is meant to be maternal.

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Children, Taken, Abortion

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• Motivational Quotes on: Honesty, Success, Kind
  There was a tremendous modesty in the man as he spoke, a quietness and dignity. There was a simplicity and honesty and unselfconsciousness, and a tremendous peace.

  Walter Russell

  Honesty, Men, Simplicity

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• The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Attention, Sage, Merit

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.50, Shambhala Publications

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• The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of our neighbor to our bodily comforts. . . If a certain kind of dress constitutes a grave and proximate occasion of sin, and endangers the salvation of your soul and others, it is your duty to give it up.

  Pope Pius XII

  Spiritual, Giving, Soul

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• How many girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them.

  Pope Pius XII

  Girl, Sheep, Feelings

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• The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Deterioration, Gone, Before Marriage

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• No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Men, Fortune, Modest

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.115, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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• There is a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women.

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Christian, Dresses, Forgetfulness

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• Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Philosophy, Men

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.350, eKitap Projesi

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• Modesty is my best quality.

  Jack Benny

  Quality

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• A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

  Joseph Addison

  Humility, Pride, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.301

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• Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

  Joseph Addison

  Virtue, Betray, Amiable

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq”, p.560

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• If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Believe, Land, Earth

  1924 The Gift of Black Folk, ch.9.

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• You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Real, Conceited, Long

  Louisa May Alcott (2012). “Little Women and Little Men”, p.198, Graphic Arts Books

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• Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sweet, Looks, Cottages

  Oliver Goldsmith (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with notes and a life of the poet by W. M'Leod. (Oxf. exam. scheme).”, p.76

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• Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, May, Fool

  Jonathan Swift (1843). “Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published”, p.836

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