To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

Pochi uccelli Stephen preferiva ai succiacapre, ma non era stato il loro canto a farlo scendere dal letto. Rimase fermo, appoggiato alla ringhiera, e poco dopo Jack Aubrey, in un padiglione presso il campo di...

It’s like the old question, “Do you lock your house to keep people out, or to protect what’s inside?” Should a person act modestly and dress modestly in order to prevent intrusion from the outside,...

She just wore Enough for modesty – no more

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

Love, forgiveness, modesty, humility and gratitude are most important virtues in life.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

You don’t get to decide the truth. Other people have their own experiences, just as valid. This is easy to forget. Your slice of life seems so large and unmistakeable, like a mirage of wholeness...

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

I think the skin revolution for women, I will call it, really all started with Mariah Carey. Madonna was pretty risqué too, but she was pretty much always known as a “bad girl.” Mariah was...

She just wore enough for modesty; no more!

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

{Yogananda on the death of his dear friend, the eminent 20th century scientist, Luther Burbank}His heart was fathomlessly deep, long acquainted with humility, patience, sacrifice. His little home amid the roses was austerely simple; he...

A society which sees her modesty or her “hang-ups” as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now...

This is just enough.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . . . Jackets were tailored with tails in the back, but were...

Pop stars AREN’T cool. Cheating on your husband or your wife isn’t cool. Having no modesty with your body and no self-respect is NOT cool. It doesn’t matter how pretty someone’s voice is, or if...

Don’t make noise, rather give people good reasons to make noise about you.

She’d been taught that pants were inappropriate for girls because they were immodest […] If women’s pants were suggestive, men’s were equally so, and they revealed a great deal more of what was underneath them....

Modesty is invisibility…Never forget it. To be seen—to be seen—is to be…penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.

Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to pucker their lips suggestively. They could not say that they were going “to...

Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [the scientist] must nevertheless remain sincere and modest, if only because his studies constantly bring home to him...

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.

He slowed down a bit more. “Gaia, how do you know these things?” She shrugged. “I’m smart.” “And modest, too.” “Modesty is a waste of time,” she pronounced. “I’ll keep that in mind.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference.

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

Modesty was hardly a priority in her mind until now. Now she had been cast from Hell and again knew shame.

O Woman – Allah has made you the Queen of Piety and Modesty, Don’t belittle yourself to be the slave of unlawful admiration and mortal fame & fortune.

We’re not protecting our daughters if we forbid makeup, eschew fashionable hairstyles, or wear dowdy clothes. The feminine form is beautiful. Sure, we don’t want to hide behind makeup or wear immodest clothes to draw...

But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a realistic assessment of the job to be done and one’s ability to do it, then you might say the chief virtue...

Modesty is a noble expression of honesty

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

Unlike Kim Cardassian or Donald Trump, Montaigne regarded the inward glance as an adventure in self-effacement not self infatuation. He was a charming and perceptive critic of his own foibles, especially alert to his weakness...

The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the noble weather of their own minds and those productions which seem remarkable to...

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not always be very...

To write about him is to write about Greatness. To discuss him is todiscuss Intellectual Brilliance. To think of him is to think of Modesty,Simplicity and Lucidity. To remember him is to remember Nationalism atits...

Why you?- (…) I’m the best.- Modest of you.- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it ‘the new modesty.’

Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so,...

You might want to put some clothes on’ suggested Jace ‘I’m all for the bra and panties look, but you don’t want the Silent Brothers to die of excitement

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.