Modest Quotes

Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.

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

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

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

I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able help.

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

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.

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

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

People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.

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

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.

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

I'm a very modest person.

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.

I just owe almost everything to my father and 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.

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.

I'm very, very modest.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.