Modesty Quotes

Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.

William E. Woodward

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Louisa May Alcott

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.

Tom Glazer

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

Major Taylor

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Jeremy Collier

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Louisa May Alcott

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

Herodotus

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Oliver Goldsmith

Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty

Jean de la Bruyere

Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.

Wendy Shalit

Rare is agreement between beauty and modesty.

Latin Proverb

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Honore de Balzac

With people with only modest ability, modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Schopenhauer

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same colour.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by

Andre Maurois