Quotes About Modesty

His thick-skinned placidity was unassailable. Calmness, toughness of mind, indefatigable and stubborn patience, these were his most salient traits. It was thanks to his unusual modesty and reserve, to his total lack of false ambition, and to his artless simplicity of demeanor, that so notable and so wealthy a man numbered among his innumerable acquaintances in Viennese society no enemies but only friends.

Come talvolta un artista, per dar prova delle proprie energie creative, cerca di proposito un soggetto esteriormente modesto invece di uno patetico e universale, così di tanto in tanto il destino cerca un eroe insignificante per dimostrare come anche da una materia scadente possa svilupparsi la più alta tensione, da un'anima debole e mal disposta una grandiosa tragedia.

The natural elements of sunlight, water and air were not permitted to touch a woman's bare skin. At the seaside, women made their laborious way through the water in heavy bathing costumes, covered from neck to ankles. Young girls in boarding schools and convents even had to take baths in long white garments, forgetting that they had bodies at all.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

How sweet is success when the conditions leading it seem to bode ill," Stewart thought. "Such, in all modesty, is the reward of virtue." *

Such, in all modesty, is the reward of virtue.

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

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

Do the truth quietly without display.

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.

Humility is the daughter of truth.

I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.

Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.

Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.

The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.

The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

To be modest in speaking truth is hypocrisy. TM-ST-95

If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!

This is a Southern gift, isn't it - tremendous self-regard diluted with humor and modesty. That's what they mean by Southern charm, right?

Fue una fiesta muy divertida, como sólo sabe celebrarlas la gente modesta.

You look at us and you see oppression; we see stability and harmony. You see corruption; we see ties of family, friendship, and mutual support. You see feudalism, we see mutual responsibility. You see the oppression of women, we see the defense of modesty.

I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place.

We are foolish as teenagers. We say wrong things, do not know how to be modest, or less shy. We judge easily. But the only hope given us, although only in retrospect, is that we change. We learn, we evolve. What I am now was formed by whatever happened to me then, not by what I have achieved, but by how I got here.