“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
Without false modesty, I feel that, when I'm on the stage, I'm the king, the boss of the situation. — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh. — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity… — Cyrus the Great Copy Share Image
To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
We must learn a new modesty. We have stormed the heavens, but succeeded only in building fog upon fog, a mist which… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine. Do I even… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not make yourself the subject of remarks either by being overdressed or by dressing in a lax, untidy manner. Act as… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“You are a worthy competitor, the best rival I ever encountered, it is an honour to be your opponent, you are better… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
We don't have to eat the best food to survive: a basic diet will get us through. We wear clothes to stay… — Laura Whitmore Copy Share Image
No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
But how can you know anything of the impression made on others? Who can assure you that others do not draw therefrom… — Pope Pius XII 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
“I think the skin revolution for women, I will call it, really all started with Mariah Carey. Madonna was pretty risqué too,… — Lisa Bedrick Copy Share Image
The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So what are you really wearing?" The words left her mouth before she could consider them. She winced. He didn't seem to… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ...… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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