Best humility & modesty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who is humble easily obeys everyone, fears to offend anyone, is at peace with everyone, is kind with all.”

“It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause.”

Found Causes Taken Humility Prejudice Envy Arrogant Modesty Positively Hurtful

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.”

Men Heart Faces Humility Pride Achievement Modesty Nevertheless Modest

Book:God's Men: A Novel

Source: God's Men: A Novel

“True modesty is a discerning grace And only blushes in the proper place; But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, Where 'tis a shame to be asham'd t' appear: Humility the parent of the first, The last by vanity produc'd and nurs'd.”

Firsts Lasts Parent Grace Humility Shame Blind Vanity Modesty Counterfeit Discerning

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.”

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author

“I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.”

Memories Virtue Humility Understood Shining Triumph Modesty Digging

Author:Albert Camus

“We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility - in other people.”

People Knows Heart May Reason Values Humility Divine Ego Glory Simplicity Modesty Freshness Nuisance

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper - the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women.”

Culture Quality Humility Ideals Surrender Manners Purity Peculiar Temper Modesty Sensitivity Sweetness Jewels Invaluable Meekness

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.”

Form Humility Pure Shapes Originals Longing Melancholy Reverence Modesty Serenity Veils Gratefulness Manifold

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“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.”

Feels Religious Responsibility Humility Praying Stuck Modesty I Pray

Author:Maya Angelou

“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.”

Spirit Beauty Grace Humility Purity Temper Fierce Modesty Severe Calmness Gracious Signatures Cosmetics Countenance Temperance True Beauty Humility And Modesty

Author:Arthur Helps

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

Art Humility Gentle Charm Pretending Modesty Modest Humility And Modesty

Author:Oliver Herford

“It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.”

Men Littles Teach Humility Modesty

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.”

Tears Humility Modesty True Humility False Modesty

Book:The One Year Uncommon Life Daily Challenge

Source: The One Year Uncommon Life Daily Challenge

“The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.”

People Ifs Persons Humility Modesty Modest

Author:E. W. Howe

“We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to colour everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mould, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.”

May Opportunity Virtue Grace Humility Ought Exercise Colour Daily Life Modesty Gentleness Exalted Temperance Mould Magnificence Magnanimity

Book:The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

“Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.”

Mind Body Humility Modesty Sobriety Chastity Temperance

Author:Benjamin Whichcote

“One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.”

Humility Complexes Humble Modesty Inferiority Inferiority Complex False Modesty False Humility

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.”

Giving Should Years Parent Subjects Youth Humility Ought Honor Preserves Purity Despise Modesty Elders Ornaments Forbearance

Author:Ambrose

“Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.”

Thinking Want Running Hell Fire Humility Modesty Modest

Author:Maya Angelou

“Modesty is the conscience of the body.”

Body Humility Conscience Modesty

Book:Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life

Source: Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”

“It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.”

Helping Quality Humility Humble Human Condition Modesty Impressive Be Humble Good Quality Humility And Modesty

Author:Judith Martin

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

Men Doe Talent Humility Pride Reasonable Possessed Modesty Eloquence Great Talent Humility And Modesty

Book:The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index

Source: The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index

“To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.”

Humility Duty Humble Superiors Modesty Inferiors Courtesy Poor Richard Be Humble Humbling Humility And Modesty

Book:Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom

Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom

“A modest little person, with much to be modest about.”

Life Littles Persons Humility Pride Insult Sarcasm Sarcastic Modesty Modest Repartee

Author:Winston Churchill

“And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.”

“Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'”

Compassion Humility Following Modesty Footsteps

Author:Maya Angelou

“If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes.”

Ifs Littles States Justice Common Virtue Risk Humility Trust Pride Hero Fame Charity Profit Betrayal Stupidity Common Sense Deception Modesty Profitable Avarice Being A Hero

Author:Thomas More

“I'm just a weapon of the god.”

Honesty Humility Weapons Modesty

Author:Janet Morris

“Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.”

Facts Greater Humility Vanity Vain Display Modesty

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.”

Found Humility Pride Modesty Valor

Author:W. S. Gilbert

“To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.”

Ifs Men Humility Pride Criticism Tests Modesty Modest Applause

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“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.”

People Ifs Done Humility Pride Grateful Legacy Sincere Modesty

Author:Tom Glazer

“Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.”

Humility Praise Modesty Angle Bait

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“Modesty is the citadel of beauty.”

Humility Modesty Citadels

Author:Demades

“Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.”

Mind Heart Light Humility Shining Modesty Shining Light Humility And Modesty

Author:Francois Guizot

“Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.”

Men Self Suffering Hours Doubt Greatness Humility Characteristics Great Men Modesty Introspection Self-doubt

Author:Bruce Barton

“Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.”

People Men Feels Sometimes Enough Humility Pride Limits Appreciate Praise Merit Modesty Modest Offense Injured

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”

Source: The Analects

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

Life Inspirational Success Purpose Speak Difficult Humility Chinese Modesty Modest Superior Man Confucianism Chinese Philosophy Chinese Philosopher Confucian Humility And Modesty

Book:The Chinese Classics

Source: The Chinese Classics

“Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know”

Knows Humility Intellectual Modesty Intellectual Humility

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Modesty is the way you deal with beauty not the way you avoid it.”

Way Inspirational Deals Beauty Humility Philosopher Modesty Avoiding Shyness

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.”

Self Christian Humility Christian Inspirational Modesty Forgetfulness True Humility Self Forgetfulness False Modesty

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.”

Wisdom Perfect Humility Modesty Inferiority Complex Humility And Modesty Self Approval

Book:Weight of Glory

Source: Weight of Glory

“That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some of them, conduct themselves flamboyantly in public. But alone with the work they are chaste and humble. They know they are not the source of the creations they bring into being. They only facilitate. They carry. They are the willing and skilled instruments of the gods and goddesses they serve.”

Knows May Artist Creation Humility Willing Source Instruments Humble Warrior Acquire Goddess Modesty Facilitate Chaste Gods And Goddesses

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.”

Believe Motivational Humility Ambition Strive Being The Best Modesty Motorsports

Author:Juan Manuel Fangio

“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.”

Real Virtue Humility Confession Modesty Lowest Deficiency Undervalued Humility And Modesty

Book:The Miscellaneous Works

Source: The Miscellaneous Works

“I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round hell if by so doing he can make us believe that we have a single virtue which we have not. And he is right, for such ideas are very harmful, and such imaginary virtues, when they come from this source, are never unaccompanied by vainglory; just as those which God gives are free both from this and from pride.”

Ifs Giving Believe Ideas Running Hell Virtue Humility Source Pride Terrible Thousand Devil Rounds Imaginary Modesty

Book:Interior Castle

Source: Interior Castle

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