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• Humility is the first step towards learning. You can’t learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Learning, Humble, Humility

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jan 12, 2013

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• How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Beautiful, Virtue, Gems

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• A modest man never talks of himself.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Modest

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• If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

  Mason Cooley

  Exhibitionism, Literature, Ifs

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• Ornaments were invented by modesty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Ornaments

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.64

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• There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

  Arthur Helps

  Beauty, Humility, Grace

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• Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

  Harriet Martineau

  Literature, Fidelity, Retiring

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.112

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• In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.

  Kim Campbell

  Doctors, Government, Economic

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• I do plead with the mothers of Zion to undertake modesty in dress. We may like to follow the fashion, but let us follow it in modesty. The most precious thing that a girl has is her modesty and if she preserves this in dress, in speech, in action, it will arm, and protect her as nothing else will. But let her lose her modesty, and she becomes a victim of those who pursue her, as the hare is of the hound; and she will not be able to stand unless she preserves her modesty.

  L. Tom Perry

  Girl, Mother, Fashion

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• A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls.

  Pope Pius XII

  Soul, Darkness, Sin

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• Modesty should accompany youth.

  Plautus

  Youth, Should, Accompany

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• Modesty died when clothes were born.

  Mark Twain

  Fashion, Clothes, Born

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.281, Courier Corporation

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• For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a simple request. Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Simple, Night

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• Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, House, Devil

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Twelfth Night”, p.79, Palgrave Macmillan

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• To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humble, Humility, Courtesy

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.68, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Strength, Wise, Strong

  Charles de Gaulle (1960). “The Edge of the Sword”, New York : Criterion Books

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• Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Merit, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

  Francois Guizot

  Heart, Humility, Light

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• We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

  Jean Rostand

  Watches

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear name tags. The more people talk about their own skills, the more desperate they are—their work should speak for itself.

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Wise, Work, Intelligent

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• Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

  Joseph Joubert

  Kindness, Grace, Politeness

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• Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

  Laurence Sterne

  Beauty, Humility, Heart

  Laurence Sterne (1823). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.241

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• A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, 'I am everyone's servant.' Then the whole universe will bow down to us.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Attitude, Real, Humility

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• You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

  Juan Manuel Fangio

  Motivational, Believe, Ambition

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