A Quote by Vilhjalmur Stefansson

False modesty is better than none. — © Vilhjalmur Stefansson
False modesty is better than none.
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
I'll tell you something about Glenn McGrath - he was a much better bowler than me. This is not false modesty.
A false vision was better than none.
Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord.
False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.
True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.
True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.
In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.
It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals.
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.
Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.
To the devil with false modesty.
I don't like false modesty.
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