Modesty Quotes - page 2

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders. (Joseph Addison)
I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
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. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways. View quote
Franz Boas
Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ... It is at the same time a training in boldness. ... It demands from us the boldness implied in the resolve to regard the accepted views as mere opinions, or to regard the average opinions as extreme opinions which are at least as likely to be wrong as the most strange or least popular opinions. View quote
Leo Strauss
Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. (C. S. Lewis)
I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
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. View quote
Ambrose
Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head. View quote
Seth Grahame-Smith
The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue. View quote
Dannah Gresh
Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive. View quote
Chris Evans
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty. View quote
Alex Kapranos
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere. View quote
Belva Ann Lockwood
With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face. View quote
Iain Glen
Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more. View quote
Linda Chavez
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader. (Sarah Fielding)
With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee. View quote
Tom Glazer
As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty. View quote
Wilfred Burchett
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings. View quote
Hector Berlioz
Modesty is an old-fashioned virtue, which, given your charms, you must certainly do without. View quote
Marquis de Sade