You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
Put your heart in He then put your heart in me. Together, forever, we shall believe. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Haven't you ever heard that modesty is an attractive trait?" "Only from ugly people," Jace confided. "The meek may inherit the earth,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a simple request. Honor his example of service,… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
“Not on the score of modesty, but decency; for the care which some modest women take, making at the same time a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
“In fact, it seems that most of the Bible's instructions regarding modesty find their context in warnings about materialism, not sexuality . . .” — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Men are not inspired to protect women who are naked, but instead to conquer and violate them; they want to protect those… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I'm a duck farmer. Am I the world's best duck farmer? Probably not, but there's no official ranking, and I'm a modest… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Every man appreciates modesty in a woman just like the way every woman celebrates a man of generosity.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
“Modesty is an admirable quality, but it shouldn't be confused with insecurity or self-doubt.” — Sofia Malamas Copy Share Image
There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at… — Antonio de Oliveira Salazar Copy Share Image
Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seento be seenis to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
