Quotes: Modesty

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

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.

Modesty is my best quality.

One of the problems with sex education… is that it also strips kids – especially girls – of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.