#modest

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#endangered #false #false modesty #fidelity #inconsistent

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#modesty #pass #praise #these #unselfishness

I realise that every time my face is on TV or I'm playing in a tournament, that I am a role model for a lot of people and a lot of kids do look up to me. I try to do my best in that regard and put myself across as honestly and as modestly as possible, as well. ↗

— Rory McIlroy

#am #best #every #every time #face

The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#body #color #covered #explicit #heart

The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#body #colour #covered #explicit #heart

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#ever #fortune #make #man #modest

When I was first pregnant, which was, let's see, in nineteen-eighty-three - I remember wearing a regular bathing suit to my in-laws' pool. It was just like a spandex one-piece, completely modest, and yet people were looking at me like it was obscene. ↗

— Heidi Murkoff

#bathing suit #completely #first #i #i remember

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#directors #films #modest #more #number

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#finds #good #himself #ill #man

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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