Quotes About Modesty

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

No man will ever put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

When a woman veils her body in modest clothing, she is not hiding herself from men. On the contrary, she is revealing her dignity to them.

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.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.

For me, the sexiest men don't know they're drop-dead gorgeous. Not that I'd ever rule out a pot-bellied plumber in the right circumstances.

What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it

... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.