Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

False modesty is better than none.

Mason Cooley

A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

Jean Cocteau

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

George Herbert

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

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.

John Adams

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

Jules Renard

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

Aristotle

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

Romain Rolland

Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.

John Milton

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

Gary Zukav

As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also.

Euripides

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

George R. R. Martin

I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.

Christian Nestell Bovee

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Michael Barrett

We need them to produce. We don't need them to just survive, we need them to thrive to win.

Patrick Beilein

We thrive on those situations. We like to be the underdog and like to go under the radar.

David Walliams

I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.

Brian Urlacher

We didn't have any three-and-outs, a lot of takeaways, a lot of sacks. That's what we thrive on.