Modesty

(376 votes)   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
1832-1888, American Author

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(341 votes)   Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(300 votes)   To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(291 votes)   The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(266 votes)   Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(265 votes)   He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(264 votes)   Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small.

Jewish Proverbs
Sayings of Jewish Origin

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(252 votes)   No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(248 votes)   Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(240 votes)   Always remember when you are on top of the world , that the earth rotates every 24 hrs.

Steve G. Makris

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(238 votes)   Act as though you cannot fail but keep a humble spirit.

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(236 votes)   Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(231 votes)   That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Frank Moore Colby
1865-1925, American Editor, Essayist

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau
1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

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(226 votes)   Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

Bernard Mandeville
1670-1733, Dutch-born British Author, Physician

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