La modestia prohíbe a veces aquello que no prohíbe la ley

La buena crianza consiste en ocultar cuán gran concepto tenemos de nosotros mismos, y en cuán poco preciamos a nuestro interlocutor.

Confesar sus defectos cuando son reprendidos, es modestia; descubrirlos a los amigos es ingenuidad y confianza; hacer alarde de ellos sin tiempo y sin ser preguntados, es orgullo

Donde hay verdadero valor encuéntrase también verdadera modestia

La modestia se parece a las estrellas, que cuanto más buscan la oscuridad en el cielo, más brillan

El hombre superior es modesto en el hablar, pero abundante en el obrar.

La modestia es una de las cualidades más estimables del hombre superior.

La modestia contribuye al progreso, y el engreimiento conduce al atraso.

La modestia es el complemento de la sabiduría.

¡Sé modesto! Es la clase de orgullo que molesta menos.

La modestia es al mérito lo que las sombras a la figura de un cuadro: le da vigor y relieve.

La modestia sola, es capaz de desarmar la envidia, que por lo común hace a los hombres tan injustos.

Nada sienta tan bien en la frente del vencedor como una corona de modestia.

El exceso de modestia es un exceso de orgullo.

La vanidad es el amor propio al descubierto: la modestia es el amor propio que se esconde

La modestia en las capacidades medias es siempre honesta, en los grandes ingenios hipocresía.

No hay nada más engañoso que la falsa modestia. Cuando no es despreocupación por las opiniones, es una manera indirecta de pavonearse

Las personas excepcionales no utilizan trucos como la falsa modestia. No salen a la caza de cumplidos, pero los aceptan donosamente.

Lo que mejor sienta a la juventud es: la modestia, el pudor, el amor, la templanza y la justicia. Tales son las virtudes que deben formar su carácter

La sinceridad no es una flor espontánea, al igual que la modestia.

El verdadero conocimiento de sí mismo haría generalmente muy modesto al individuo.

Dios es modesto, no se atreve a vanagloriarse de haber creado el mundo.

El mejor adorno de una mujer lo constituye el silencio y la modestia.

Sin un gran entusiasmo, sin la decisión de dirigir la mirada hacia abajo, sin la sed de conocer, sin la disposición a despojarse de toda presunción para ser alumno modesto, será imposible realizar ninguna investigación o hacerla bien.

Es más difícil que una persona rica sea modesta a que una persona modesta sea rica.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.

Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.

It is time to recognize the variability of females, just as we do males.

I think that school just isn't for everyone. A lot of people don't learn well when they're - have to sit in a place for eight hours. A lot of people learn best lying in their own bed, teaching themselves from books. And I was a bad student. I was a brat. If I was a teacher, I would not have liked myself.

Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

We are none of us infallible not even the youngest of us.

I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can really mess with your sense of self and I feel like coming from the South keeps me pretty grounded.

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'

Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.

My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

I've never been a size 0.

A team is a group of young men playing together. The program is the entirety of that.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

I always wanted to be fashionable.

I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my tough girl attitude was like, 'I'm not having it.'

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?

But there is something seductive and the character, Alfie is so charming, and does make you think like you are the most important thing in the world but he's not that nice, is he.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.

I used to take pride if my kids were playing basketball, and I'd be there, and I wouldn't say anything. People were obviously expecting me to yell and scream at the ref and at them and everything. I wouldn't say anything.