Modest Quotes

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.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around.