Quotes About Modesty

There is strength in humility and weakness in pride.

Modesty and decency dwell in the mind, not in a burka.

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

The Spirit at work in us is replacing our desire to dress in a way that impresses or seduces with a desire to dress as Paul instructed women in his letter to Timothy, "in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control" (1 Tim. 2:9). Rather than making a fashion statement with our clothes that will cause heads to turn in our direction, we want to make a fashion statement with our character that will cause heads to turn in Christ's direction.

No man should be told he's a god while he still lives,' he said at last. 'It doesn't promote good thinking.

When a man and woman married, nothing they did together had any shame or immodesty. It was all in the name of God. There was fruitfulness and joy in it, and it followed the Creator's own plan for continuing the human race.

Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.

She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.

Why do foreigners always ask about clothing?" one woman doctor asked. "Why does it matter so much what we wear? Of all the issues in the world, is that really so important?" Another said: "You think we're victims, because we cover our hair and wear modest clothing. But we think that it's Western women who are repressed, because they have to show their bodies—even go through surgery to change their bodies—to please men.

also designed to keep girls chaste is breast ironing.

There is one thing Margaret Thatcher said that I agree with: if you have to tell people you're important, you're not.

Wisdom consists in being moderate not out of horror of excess, but out of love for the limit.

Austeridad, resignación, modestia, según el dogma moderno, son servidumbres ideológicas.

He who accepts the rank which nature assigns him does not turn into the mere absence of what he is not. Even the most modest thing has, in its proper place, immeasurable worth.

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

You don't have to be naked to be sexy.

Only when he died did they find out, with regret, that the Public Prosecutor had had a soul, although out of modesty he had never flaunted it.

Look what shoes I brought you---the empress herself wore them." "No, no, I don't need any shoes..." and she blushed deeply.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Clothes are not meant to make people think about what is under the clothes. Clothes are meant to direct attention to what is not under them: merciful hands that serve others in the name of Christ, beautiful feet that carry the gospel where it is needed, and the brightness of a face that has beheld the glory of Jesus.

The abashed modesty that faddish cultural relativism seeks to impose on us is not merely unwarranted on intellectual grounds. It is a species of grave moral delinquency. Our doctors not only "know different" about how the body works, and how its illnesses and injuries may be treated, they "know better." To deny this is to open the door to all kinds of avoidable suffering, in this society and elsewhere.

Pudoarea e probabil un sentiment de profanare. Prietenia, iubirea, evlavia ar trebui tratate în chip tainic. Ar trebui s? vorbim despre ele doar în clipe rare, intime, s? ne în?elegem în t?cere cu privire la ele - Multe lucruri sunt prea ginga?e spre a fi gândite, ?i mai multe spre a fi rostite.

Evet, aletle ö?ünmek, diyor Turgut buna. Bir vidas?n? bile siz yapmad?n?z, bu kadar gururlanmaya ne hakk?n?z var? diye tepiniyor.