#modest

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


Ninon de L'Enclos


#men #modesty #most #rule #strange

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.


Belva Lockwood


#believe #distinction #everywhere #had #i

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.


Richard Steele


#beauty #detestable #lack #modesty #nothing

I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.


Christopher Hitchens


#atheism #belief #fantasy #god #humility

Intelligence could be more briliant within modesty.


Toba Beta


#briliant #intelligence #modesty #intelligence

Every writer on this planet THINKS he is a great writer (why waste your entire life writing when you believe you are mediocre?) but its deemed socially unacceptable to actually speak out such thoughts. So, modesty is always a public concept and not an inner one. For that reason alone 'modesty' can actually be said to be the product of a large ego, for the ego is primarily concerned with survival and society rewards this dishonesty and tends to punish honesty (see Camus)


Martinus Hendrikus Benders


#modesty #writers-on-writing #life

My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.


Yasmin Mogahed


#modesty #purpose #women #men

Author describes auto CEO's decisions to drive rather than fly to Washington as "showy penitence".


Ron Suskind


#education

A great man is always willing to be little.


Ralph Waldo Emerson


#greatness #humbleness #humility #modesty #size

And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.


Florenz Ziegfeld


#add #beginning #chorus #come #comparatively