“There’s a very fine line between being broke and being humble.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
What does God think of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood? — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty. — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties... — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested. — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.' — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
“There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
But by no manner of means are women to be allotted to uncover and exhibit any part of their person, lest both… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We live in a highly competitive world - and we Indians have to struggle to catch up. So modesty is necessary, even… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
This modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in possession… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
His constant fight is with the Nafs (self-interest), the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Authentic love is obviously something good. When we love we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Christian mothers, if only you knew the future of distress and peril, of shame ill-restrained, that you prepare for your sons and… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close, without… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
