Virtue of modesty quotes:

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  • Modesty is the color of virtue. -- Diogenes
  • Modesty is not one of my virtues. -- Alan King
  • 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
  • When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. -- Akhenaton
  • I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere. -- Belva Ann Lockwood
  • You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. -- Louisa May Alcott
  • Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Modesty is policy, no less than virtue. -- William Gilmore Simms
  • Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public. -- John Adams
  • Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty. -- David Halberstam
  • Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. -- Joseph Addison
  • Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism. -- Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
  • Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
  • I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
  • Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it. -- Joseph Addison
  • The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet. -- Anne Lamott
  • I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress. -- Albert Camus
  • Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians. -- Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
  • Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute. -- Aristotle
  • The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue. -- Dannah Gresh
  • A girl's modesty is first noted by her external presentation, but if it's not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she still forfeits the power of her virtue. -- Dannah Gresh
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