Modesty
The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit.
Natural delicacy or shame regarding personal charms and the sexual relation; purity of thought and manners; due regard for propriety in speech or action.
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Modesty Quotations
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius
I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Jonathan Swift
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
Herodotus
"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
Marquis de Sade
Modesty is my best quality.
Jack Benny
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Honore de Balzac
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott
Modesty Translations
modesty in Dutch is bescheidenheid, discretie
modesty in French is pudeur, modestie
modesty in German is Bescheidenheit
modesty in Latin is pudor, rubor
modesty in Spanish is modestia
modesty in Swedish is blygsamhet
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