Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Gilmore Simms

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

Sarah Fielding

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

William Hazlitt

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

John Adams

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

Mark Twain

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

Jules Renard

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

False modesty is better than none.

William Wordsworth

Truths that wake To perish never

Vance Havner

Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.

Umberto Eco

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?

Sarah Vowell

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.

Wayne Dyer

In this universe, which was created by a divine organizing intelligence, there are simply no accidents.

Virginia Woolf

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

Wayne Dyer

Expect the Best, Expect Divine Guidance, Expect your Fortunes to Change, Expect a Miracle!

William Ames

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

Yann Martel

...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.