Modesty Quotes
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You cannot limit the power of your modesty to just what you wear. It is also controlled or forfeited by where you are willing to go with guys, why you go there, and how you act.
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True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
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Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
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Style is to see beauty in modesty.
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Modesty is the citadel of beauty.
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If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes.
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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
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Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.
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We live in a highly competitive world - and we Indians have to struggle to catch up. So modesty is necessary, even if there is also a need for a certain amount of national pride. When it comes down to it, we have managed our country's economy poorly for long enough. There is really no reason to now think that we can conquer the world.
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Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.
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Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.
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The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.
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Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.
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When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
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To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.
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Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
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Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.
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Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.
