Quotes On modesty

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Here are the quotes with the word modesty in them. No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man. — Bruce Barton Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. — Oliver Herford When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. — Akhenaton

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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

-Bruce Barton

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Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

-Oliver Herford

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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

-Akhenaton

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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

-Arthur Helps

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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

-Richard Steele

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No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

-William Law

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At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

-Hector Berlioz

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It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

-Gyorgy Legeti

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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

-Confucius

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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

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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.

-Arnold Schwarzenegger

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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

-Joseph Addison

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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

-Yves Saint Laurent

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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

-Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

-Jeremy Collier

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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

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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

-Queen Rania of Jordan

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Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

-Major Taylor

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It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

-Ninon de L'Enclos

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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man. — Bruce Barton
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. — Oliver Herford
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. — Akhenaton

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