Modest Quotes

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

I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.

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.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

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.

When I was first pregnant, which was, let's see, in nineteen-eighty-three - I remember wearing a regular bathing suit to my in-laws' pool. It was just like a spandex one-piece, completely modest, and yet people were looking at me like it was obscene.

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

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.

I had a very modest upbringing.

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

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.

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.

A 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.

Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.

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.

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

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.