Selena Gomez Quotes

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

I don't know what story y'all trying to get out of me. I don't know what image y'all trying to portray of me. But it don't matter what y'all think, what y'all say about me because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face - my family that I love, that's all that really matter to me.

I am not bold, lewd, or crude.

If I ever spat at an opponent, I'd never be able to show my face to my family ever again.

The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.

Honor is decency without vanity.

When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.

If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.

I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.

Modesty and chastity are twins

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

So a part of you is broken when that’s gone. And part of you wants to have that rebellious feeling where you’re just like, forget it — I can do anything I want. I’ve tried it, and I’ve never been that girl. I’m always going to be the girl you want to take home to your parents, not for the night.

When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.

I never found anybody I wanted to spend my life with. People say, "Didn't you want to get married?" Well, sure, but it's not abstract, there has to be someone you want to marry. I'm pretty traditional. Marriage would have to come first, before kids.

If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

If you’re decent to others, then you’re decent to yourself.

A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.

Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.

Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make a man honest, is, to suppose him soso here, to set some value upon ourselves, enables us to support the characterof generosity and virtue.

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.