A Quote by Confucius

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

Confucius

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Confucius
Chinese - Philosopher
551 BC - 479 BC

Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.

Confucius

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

Maya Angelou

Yeah, well, we were looking for something sort of anonymous. It suggests what it is, but I like that it's modest. I feel like that's an underrated virtue. It's modest and it's kind of anonymous, which I liked, because it reminds me of my own ideas about why music should be played, which is not to be a star. That was never my intention.

Zooey Deschanel

Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an enduring, values-based institution.

Marvin Bower

Be modest, be humble, be simple.

Amy Chua

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.

David Heyman

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Abraham Cahan

Washington's parasitic approach to the private sector must change for there to be widespread, near-term and enduring prosperity and job creation.

Elaine Chao

I hope Americans will read and study the Bible in the coming year. It's my firm belief that the enduring values, as I say, presented in its pages have a great meaning for each of us and for our nation.

Ronald Reagan

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

Benvenuto Cellini

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

John Donne

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Alfred North Whitehead

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

Michael Ignatieff

And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest "He died.

Suzanne Weyn

It is impossible to draw near to God without sorrows, without which human righteousness cannot remain unchanged... If you desire virtue, than give yourself to every affliction, for afflictions produce humility. If someone abides in virtue without afflictions, the door of pride is opened to him.

Isaac of Nineveh

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