Modesty Quotes - Page 17

• When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I believe to be essential in addition to skill. They are that the person conducts his or her life with dignity, with integrity, courage, and perhaps most of all, with modesty. These virtues are totally compatible with pride, ambition, and competitiveness

  Donald Bradman

  Sports, Integrity, Believe

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• I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Arrogance, Honest, Hypocritical

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• Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Awkward, Rudeness

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• Un modesto jardín contiene, para quien sabe mirar y esperar, más instrucción que una biblioteca.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Educación, Aprendizaje, Conocimiento

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• Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

  John Tillotson

  Confidence, Hurt, Men

  John Tillotson (1714). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: containing fifty four sermons and discourses on several occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith. Being all that were published by His Grace himself and now collected into one volume, to which is added an alphabetical table of the principle matter”, p.530

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• A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

  Mason Cooley

  Seduction, Modest, Demeanor

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• We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility - in other people.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Heart, Humility, People

  "El Acusado". Libro de Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Beauty, Generosity, Heroism

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• Aquel que es modesto en el trato con las personas exhibe su arrogancia con mayor fuerza en el trato con las cosas (ciudad, estado, sociedad, edad, humanidad). Ésa es su venganza.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Cities, People

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• The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.

  Mason Cooley

  Cameras, Youth, Knows

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• Citas inspiradoras sobre: Honestidad, Simplicidad, Secreto, Universo, Modestia, Paz
  La honestidad es el primer capítulo del libro de la sabiduría.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Book, Simplicity

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• No llamo virtud a la virginidad que reside únicamente en la integridad del cuerpo; mucho menos si es con el propósito de conservarla perpetuamente, pues entonces es un vicio sumamente inhumano. - Pero yo llamo a esa virginidad una virtud que está dispuesta y deseosa de entregarse en términos honestos y legales, cuando la justa razón lo requiere; y hasta entonces, se mantiene con una modesta castidad de cuerpo y mente.

  John Donne

  Honestidad, integridad, rendimiento

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• A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Farming, Farmers, Dependent

  Bharati Mukherjee (2007). “Jasmine”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Gambling, Dignity, Forget

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• Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

  Séneca el Joven

  Return, Knows

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• Creo que poca gente es consciente de lo temprano que es correcto respetar el pudor de un bebé.

  Harriet Martineau

  Thinking, People, Infant

  Harriet Martineau (1849). “Household Education”, p.294

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• Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

  Ada Leverson

  People, Merit, Appearance

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• La modestia es un engaste de diamantes para la belleza femenina.

  Fanny Kemble

  Female, Diamond, Settings

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• In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

  Margaret Deland

  Self, Connections, Birth

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Iron Woman”, p.236, The Floating Press

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• En una nación de adoradores de celebridades, entre seguidores del culto a la personalidad, la modestia individual se convierte en una cualidad heroica. Encuentro heroísmo en la aceptación del anonimato, en la estudiada resistencia al normal tropismo americano hacia el protagonismo.

  Shana Alexander

  Acceptance, Cult Of Personality, Quality

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• Modesty is of no use to a beggar.

  Homer

  Humble, Use, Beggar

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• Poco sabes lo que has hecho, cuando has roto por primera vez los límites de la modestia; has abierto la puerta de tu fantasía al diablo, para que pueda, casi a su antojo siempre después, representarte de nuevo el mismo placer pecaminoso.

  Richard Baxter

  Puertas, Diablo, Hecho

  Richard Baxter (1815). "El mejor compañero del pobre: en diálogos sencillos y familiares. Con formas de oración para diversos usos ... Por el reverendo Richard Baxter", p. 221.

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• When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

  Madame de Stael

  Ambition, Men, Political

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• It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the highest beauty, that which is imperishable. No outward adorning can compare in value or loveliness with that "meek and quiet spirit."

  Ellen G. White

  Love Is, Desire, Firsts

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book IV of IV”, p.1679, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Sé inteligente, pero nunca lo demuestres.

  Louis B. Mayer

  Smart, Cinema, Stay Humble

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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