Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old modesty quotes, modesty sayings, and modesty proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
A modest little person, with much to be modest about.Winston S. Churchill
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To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.Benjamin Franklin
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Modesty is the color of virtue.Diogenes
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Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.Paulo Coelho
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.Harry Truman
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Modesty, if you consider it, is the most unforgivable sort of falsehood: it's a lie that does damage to no one but yourself.Meredith Duran
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It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.A.A. Milne
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The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.Mark Twain
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False modesty can be worse than arrogance.David Mitchell
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Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.Noah Webster
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The thunder of false modesty was deafening.Sebastian Faulks
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.Honoré de Balzac
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.Mary Wortley Montagu
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We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.William Shakespeare
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.Max Beerbohm
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Modesty is invisibility. Never forget it. To be seen to be seen is to be penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.Margaret Atwood
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You do not become smarter by blowing your own horn. You become smarter by being humble.Dr T.P.Chia
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.William Hazlitt
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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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When you know who you are, you won't have false modesty.Sunday Adelaja
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself.Edith Sitwell
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Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.Major Taylor
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In life humility is not a handicap, arrogance is not a strength.Dr T.P.Chia
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Having a low opinion of yourself is not modesty. It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not egotism. It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.Bobbe Sommer
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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.John Kenneth Galbraith
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Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.Remy de Gourmont
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Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.Horace
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.Joseph Addison
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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.Confucius