Modest Quotes

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

I'm very, very modest.

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

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

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.

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 It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.