Modest Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.

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

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

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

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.

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.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

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

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.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.

On their own merits modest men are dumb.

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

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 It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.

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

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

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.

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