Quotes About Modesty

There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no politics like antipolitics, just as there is no worldliness compare with ostentatious antimaterialism.

Lefever describes his financing plan with modesty: 'Our detailed budget is realistic, but does not take into account the inflation that may occur before September 1983. The one place it could cut or reduce is item 7, the simultaneous interpreter services, if these services could be provided gratis by the U.S. government.' In other words, the only way to make a saving on a U.S.-subsidized project is to take money out of another U.S.-subsidized column.

On the other hand, and as if by way of compensation, religion teaches people to be extremely self-centered and conceited. It assures them that go cares for them specifically in mind. This explains the supercilious expression on the faces of those who practice religion ostentatiously: pray excuse my modesty and humility but I happen to be busy on an errand for god.

Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say, 'attaboy'.

Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry

False modesty is never admirable, and least of all among those who command others.

La falsa modestia no es una virtud, en ningún caso, y mucho menos en los que tienen a otros a su cargo. Nasuada

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We classify the positive traits that protect us from excess as strengths of temperance. What are the types of excess of special concern? Hatred—against which forgiveness and mercy protect us. Arrogance—against which humility and modesty protect us. Short-term pleasure with long-term costs—against which prudence protects us. And destabilizing emotional extremes of all sorts—against which self-regulation protects us.

It was typical of Belbo to seek revenges of which he would be the only witness. Not out of modesty, but because he distrusted the ability of others to appreciate them.

El secreto de mi éxito es que de joven descubrí que no era Dios».

We should call on the Creator to show more modesty. He created the world in a frenzy of excitement. Instead of revising his rough drafts, he had his work printed straightaway. What a lot of contradictions there are in it. What a log of typing errors, inconsistencies in the plot, passages that are too long and wordy, characters that are entirely superfluous. But it is painful and difficult to cut and trim the living cloth of a book written and published in too much of a hurry

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

According to an eastern fable, the rose was white when God created it, but when, as it unfolded, it felt Adam's eyes upon it, it blushed in modesty and turned pink.

The peculiarity of prudery is to station the more sentries the less the fortress is menaced.

The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.

The pants come down. Most look shamefaced, but tha Arthur McBride is not the least bit shy about showing off his equipment, oh no, he isn't. He grins in my direction. 'Not all that impressive, boyo

The true good deeds are performed in silence.

I should not have cared to see it as an act of self-sacrifice even if it had been one; for there is nothing clever in self-sacrifice, nothing to pride oneself on.

False modesty is the last refinement of vanity.

The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

Knowing too much is very apt to make us troublesome to other people

Nympha pudica Deum vidit, et erubuit.