#modest

Like it or not, we are trendsetters. Just as every fashion model ever to strut the runway, we affect the minds of others by what we wear. With usch power it's vital to question ourselves: 'Am I an example of Christ-centeredness? Or have I just gotten comfortable in the "Christian routine" and forgotten why I've chosen to live this way? ↗

— Hannah Farver

#influence #modesty #love

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#cell #chained #every #his #however

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. ↗

— Wendy Shalit

#respect #sexual-difference #men

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

— Ronald Reagan

#achievement #inspirational #misattributed #modesty #recognition

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#american women #chinese #clothes #comes #flesh

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#college #come #i #law #law school

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. ↗

— Bernard Barton

#absolute #absolute necessity #age #below #beneath

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings. ↗

— Hector Berlioz

#failings #i #lack #least #modesty

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 attention to ourselves. But there’s nothing wrong with wanting to accent our femininity. ↗

— Kate Wicker

#body-image #catholic #christian #daughters #femininity

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. ↗

— Milton Glaser

#desire #element #even #grows #independent