Modest Quotes (48 quotes)

“This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: difficult, enable, hard, help, love, modest, refuse

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“You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, anthropocentric, anthropocentrism, aphorism, aphorisms, arrogance, arrogant, axiom, axioms, belief, beliefs, believe, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, gnome, gnomes, humble, humility, humor, humour, importance, important, insightful, life, life-goes-on, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, modest, modesty, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, really, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sincere, sincerely, thought-provoking, thoughtful, truly

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“Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.”
― Douglas Wilson, 5 Paths to the Love of Your Life: Defining Your Dating Style

tags: art-form, attractive, attractiveness, immodest, immodesty, modest, modesty, repulsive, repulsiveness

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“If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

tags: decency, decent, dignity, directive, diretion, don-t-lie, don-t-tell-lies, fame, food-for-thought, honesty, honour, identity, insecure, insecurity, integrity, israelmore-ayivor, kinds, kinds-of, liar, lie, lose, lost, modest, modesty, obey, pride, priority, secure, security, sense, sensitive, sensitivity, tell-the-truth, truth, truthful, weather

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“If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

tags: alter-ego, bell, better, change, character, different, discipline, good, good-influence, goodness, honesty, honour, humility, inside, keep-quiet, moderation, modest, modesty, mute, personal, personality, real, respect, sealed-lips, shut-up, silence, special, unknown, unseen

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“What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.”
― Joan Miró

tags: acceptance, gentleman, life, modest

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“One must learn to be simple, anyone can manage to be complex.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

tags: basic, directness, elegance, elegant, humble, modest, simple, simple-living, simple-living-and-high-thinking, simplicity

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“Sometimes simplicity and elegance are indistinguishable from each other.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

tags: basic, directness, elegance, elegant, humble, modest, simple, simple-living, simple-living-and-high-thinking, simplicity

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“[His] modesty... reminded me of the trees that bend low with the burden of ripening fruits; it is the barren tree that lifts its head high in an empty boast.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

tags: be-humble, boast, boastful, boasting, humbleness, humility, modest, modesty, pride

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“Unfortunately, most people need to know a lot of what they do not know to know how little they know.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: education, humble, humility, ignorance, ignorant, knowledge, modest, modesty, reading, self-development

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“Humans are the most important entity in the universe … only to most people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: anthropocentrism, arrogance, arrogant, humanity, humble, humility, mankind, modest, modesty, science

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“According to history, quite a few times simple man turned out to be the significant man.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

tags: basic, clarity, directness, humble, modest, simple, simple-living, simple-living-and-high-thinking, simplicity, uncomplicated

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“A truly big man is always try to be a small man.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

tags: friendly, gentleness, humble, humbleness, humility, modest, modesty, politeness, respect, respectful

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“The arrogant generally deem the humble ignorant.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: arrogance, arrogant, humble, humility, ignorance, ignorant, knowledge, knowledgeable, modest, modesty

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“Accepting help shames only the arrogant.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: accept, arrogance, arrogant, help, helper, helping-hand, humble, humility, modest, modesty

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“A boss who isn't humble lose his people ultimately, a stranger who isn't humble lose the people instantly.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

tags: friendly, gentleness, humble, humbleness, humility, modest, modesty, polite, politeness, respectful

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“I have a feeling if you don't leave, he's just going to stand there and drain precious air from my room-'

'While looking exceptionally handsome, ' he added. 'You forgot to add that.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

tags: from-blood-and-ash, funny, handsome, hawke, hawke-flynn, jennifer-l-armentrout, modest, poppy, poppy-balfour, tawny

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“I'm a duck farmer. Am I the world's best duck farmer? Probably not, but there's no official ranking, and I'm a modest guy, so I claim the number two spot.”
― Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

tags: duck, duck-quote, duck-quotes, ducks, farm, farming, homesteading, humor, modest, modesty

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“You can be the most talented, the most intelligent or the most successful man in the world, but if you're not a modest person, then you can never get rid of being a very repulsive person!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: arrogant, arrogant-people, arrogant-pride, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotes, modest, modesty, modesty-quotes, talented

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“Her smoky gaze held his intently, as though silently demanding something of him. Stopping at the side of the bed, he studied the stretch of her body. She so eloquently displayed both shameless sensuality and innocent anticipation. She was maiden and courtesan together. Bold and modest.
So many sumptuous curves and mysterious shadows.
Beautiful and all his.”
― Amy Sandas, The Untouchable Earl

tags: lily-chadwick, modest, sensual

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“If you got the pride in practice game you will get humiliation in real game.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

tags: gentleness, humbleness, humility, modest, modesty, polite, politeness, pride, respectful, sport

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“A polite man learns from everyone, a proud man learns from no one.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

tags: gentleness, humble, humbleness, humility, modest, modesty, polite, politeness, pride, respectful

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“Modesty smiles, arrogance smirks.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

tags: arrogance, gentleness, humbleness, humility, modest, modesty, polite, politeness, pride, respectful

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“A humble man is welcomed at all doors.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

tags: arrogance, gentleness, humbleness, humility, modest, modesty, polite, politeness, pride, respectful

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“The girl who questioned me could find examples of women from small cities like Rutland who have risen from modest circumstances to fulfill their dreams. Or she could persuade herself that she’d be the pioneer, that she’d be the first Rutland kid to achieve some wonderful dream and that she’d be a role model for others.”
― Bob Rotella, How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life

tags: achieve, circumstance, dream, fulfill, girl, modest, pioneer, role-model, women

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“RBG would “widely be seen as the most independent, thoughtful, modest judge on the bench.”
― Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

tags: independent, judge, modest, thoughtful

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“Be modest.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

tags: be, inspirational, modest

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“One can not beat modesty. It is too modest.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

tags: aphorism, beat, inspiration, invisible, life, man, modest, modesty, quote, woman

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“I can't be perfect every moment of every day, Nes." His eyes flickered”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

tags: a-court-of-silver-flames, cant-be-perfect, cassian, funny, joking, modest, nesta, nesta-archeron, perfect, sarah-j-maas

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“You are...'

'Devilishly handsome? Wickedly clever?' He turned back tot he western sky, where it still carried the haze of fire. 'Stunningly charismatic?'

'That wasn't what I was going for,' I told him. 'More like ridiculous.'

'Endearing ridiculous,' he corrected.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

tags: a-kingdom-of-flesh-and-fire, casteel, casteel-da-neer, endearing, funny, jennifer-l-armentrout, modest, poppy, poppy-balfour, ridiculous

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