Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.
Bobbe SommerTag: success happiness unique opinion modesty egotism regard self-destruction precondition sef
Intelligence could be more briliant within modesty.
Toba BetaTag: intelligence modesty agility briliant
Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.
Robert SchumannTag: gifts modesty inventions
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
ConfuciusTag: inspirational-quotes modesty dissembling immodesty unreliability
One of the first evidences of a real lady, is that she should be modest. By modesty we mean that she shall not say, do, nor wear anything that would cause her to appear gaudy, ill-bred, or unchaste. There should be nothing about her to attract unfavorable attention, nothing in her dress or manner that would give a man an excuse for vulgar comment. When we dress contrary to the rule of modesty we give excuse for unwholesome thoughts in the mind of those who look upon us, and every girl who oversteps these bounds makes herself liable to misunderstanding and insult, though she may be innocent of any such intention.
Margaret HaleTag: modesty
To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't
Cecelia AhernTag: modesty asking-favors
Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be letting first this boy and then that one kiss you, when it didn't mean a thing. But it was wonderful when Joe Willard kissed her. And it did mean a thing.
Maud Hart LovelaceTag: modesty first-kiss young-love
Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.
Elizabeth GaskellTag: humor modesty pretense baking cakes tea-parties
Modesty, if you consider it, is the most unforgivable sort of falsehood: it's a lie that does damage to no one but yourself.
Meredith DuranYou might want to put some clothes on' suggested Jace 'I'm all for the bra and panties look, but you don't want the Silent Brothers to die of excitement
Cassandra ClareTag: humor modesty jace-wayland
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