Modesty Quotes - Page 9

• The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Believe, Men, Years

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

  Ambrose

  Humility, Years, Giving

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• I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But really it's because, as a child, I thought I was Judy Garland. And when I started out, I was a little nuts. I thought I was a classic, legendary superstar when only 10 people knew who I was. I feel in some ways that my confidence is misinterpreted as arrogance, which is understandable. But I've also always thought that false modesty is evil.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Children, Nuts, Evil

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• I go to therapy once a week, that helps a lot. I have a really supportive family. I have two little kids, I'm married, I live close to my parents, my brother and his wife. I don't socialize a lot. I work and I have my kids, basically. I'm just, I would say, with all false modesty aside, I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.

  Mark Duplass

  Brother, Kids, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• The Church is the house of God. It is forbidden for men to enter with bare arms or in shorts. It is forbidden for women to enter in trousers, without a veil on their head, in short clothing, low necklines, sleeveless or immodest dresses.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Men, House, Church

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• The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Thunder, False Modesty

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• I think some modesty actually serves me by just accepting that I am an instrument. I'm not trying to match up to an ideal as some kind of challenge. It's more like I use the family tree of music and song that I feel has fit me as an encouragement; like it's a bed to rest in rather than a challenge to try to better myself over, to try to.

  Mirah

  Song, Encouragement, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Humble, Virtue, Lukewarm

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 4, sc. 5, 1951.

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• People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Eye, People

  Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, Solid Christian Books

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• I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.

  Alex Kapranos

  Thinking, World, Indie Music

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Ideas, Entering

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.185, Courier Corporation

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• Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Humility, Thinking

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• What we are saying is we have to be smart about the ideology that is putting this idea into the world that a woman must be defined by her idea of modesty, that she is the vessel for honor in a community. And I believe that we have to be very pragmatic, too, about the consequence of this. Women in Iran and Saudi Arabia are jailed, punished and harassed if they don't cover themselves legally, according to the standard of those countries. So the consequences for many women is oftentimes very dark.

  Asra Nomani

  Country, Smart, Believe

  "The Case Against Wearing Hijab To Support Muslim Women". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. December 22, 2015.

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• None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

  Maureen Howard

  Adults, Flesh, Touched

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• There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Race, French Woman, Kind

  Hippolyte Taine (1875). “Notes on Paris”, p.317

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• Modesty is humility expressed in dress.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Humility, Dresses

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• Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

  Margaret Atwood

  Girl, Fear, Invisibility

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• As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the spirit of tolerance but also to cherish moral and spiritual qualities such as modesty, humility, compassion, and, most important, to attain a certain degree of emotional equilibrium.

  U Thant

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Humility

  Thant (U) (1978). “View from the UN”, Doubleday Books

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• For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For
  whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Humility, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.234, Courier Corporation

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• I like working on one - camera. This is not false modesty, but I don't think I'm very good at three - camera. And it's not that I'm nervous, but I just sort of feel like my collar is too small, or my clothes don't fit. I don't understand what that is. And I don't understand the format: There's an audience in front of you that you're playing to, but there are also these cameras.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Thinking, Nervous, Fit

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

  Michel de Montaigne

  Daughter, Men, Law

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains refute our excessive trust in the man-made. They pose profound questions about our durability and the importance of our schemes. They induce, I suppose, a modesty in us.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Men, Profound, Mountain

  Robert MacFarlane (2009). “Mountains Of The Mind”, p.275, Granta

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• Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

  Mao Zedong

  Honesty, Matter, Study

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1977). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

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• The more we cling to virtues like humility, selflessness, modesty, and purity, the more beautiful we become - not only in His eyes, but also in the eyes of others. You can't airbrush that.

  Kylie Bisutti

  Beautiful, Humility, Eye

  Kylie Bisutti (2013). “I'm No Angel: From Victoria's Secret Model to Role Model”, p.244, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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