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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #modesty
Now. Now, Annwyl. No need to curtsy. A simple nod of your head and absolute worship will be more than enough. ↗
— G.A. Aiken
#worship
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ↗
— Max Beerbohm
#between #conceit #delicate #delicate balance #modesty
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. ↗
— Miguel de Cervantes
#among #every #found #greatest #himself
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. ↗
— Confucius
#find #good #his #make #modesty
It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope. ↗
— Paul Goodman
#anything #even #in my opinion #modesty #naturally
I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty. ↗
— Alexander Alekhine
#also #base #highest #i #i think
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man. ↗
— Bruce Barton
#absolute #absolute necessity #age #below #beneath
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ↗
— Lord Chesterfield
#bait #modesty #only #praise #sure
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 is the color of virtue. ↗
— Diogenes of Sinope
#modesty #virtue