Modest Quotes

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.

It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness.

A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.

All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

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

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.