Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.
Modesty is the color of virtue.
Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
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.
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
'Codename Baboushka' is an action-packed modern pulp spy thriller, in the sort of British tradition of 'Modesty Blaise', New Avengers and of course James Bond. It's a book about Contessa Annika Malikova, the last of a noble Russian line and an enigmatic, mysterious figure in New York high society.
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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.
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
In the fall of 1973, Erica Jong assaulted the last surviving bastions of old-fashioned modesty with her 'Fear of Flying.'
Modesty is not possible in performance in the Caribbean - and that's wonderful.
Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.
I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen.
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.
I say the Islanders were the best team I ever covered because they had more so many stars who delivered with Canadian-Swedish-suburban modesty. And they won four straight Stanley Cups from 1980 through 1983.
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.
Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex - not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.
As we make our way toward the finish line that some of us have already crossed, I never thought I'd get a Grammy Award. In fact, I was always touched by the modesty of their interest.
Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'
I grew up in South Jamaica, Queens, in New York. My parents were very religious churchgoing people. They were very strict. I was never really allowed to indulge in anything vain. Modesty always. I have three brothers and two sisters, so everything was on a budget.
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.
