Modest Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Modest
Modest Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Modest quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.
— Maya Angelou
Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless. To quickly grasp this concept, think of United States
— James C. Collins
My ambitions at this point are modest and mostly surround staying alive.
— David Foster Wallace
One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.
— Robert Zoellick
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
— George Colman
The Doctor gave a modest shrug. Well, I must admit that I made heads turn wherever I go. It's a burden that I just have to live with.
— Jacqueline Rayner
Graceful beauty is a modest appearance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.
— Jeremy Bentham
It's in their modest home. You go into their kitchen and serve yourself. It's all homemade. It's authentic Italian.
— Graham Spanier
A modest little person, with much to be modest about.
— Winston S. Churchill
It is very hard for a man, however modest, to grasp the possibility that a woman who has once loved him may love him no longer ...
— W. Somerset Maugham
At the Manor on Bahnhofstrasse Anna fought aggressive crowds to pick out a modest twin sweater set that
— Jill Alexander Essbaum
I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling.
— Woody Allen
What potent blood hath modest May.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.
— Galileo Galilei
Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests .
— Novalis
One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat
— Siegbert Tarrasch
Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.
— George D. Prentice
I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.
— George Bernard Shaw
I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.
— Ronnie Dunn
I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.
— Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I'm very, very modest.
— Angie Harmon
You will not see me dressed in plain, modest outfits.
— Anna Netrebko
but how to establish a process by which a sales team of modest size can move the product to a wide audience.
— Peter Thiel
Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.
— Amory Lovins
We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.
— Amah Lambert
He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.'Gothos' Folly — Steven Erikson
Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!
— Steven Wright
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the PRIVACY of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.
— Chantal Joffe
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
- Why you?- ( ... ) I'm the best.
- Modest of you.
- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it. — Paul Hoffman
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.
— John Galt
It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.
— Anthony Liccione
When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion.
— William Wilberforce
The true angler is generally a modest man.....
— Thaddeus Norris
Learn to know and value the praise which is worth having, and to excite the admiration of excellent people by being modest as well as pretty
— Louisa May Alcott
Ghafoor came from a modest family in a nearby village and had been given to the palace in exchange for a cow.
— Nadia Hashimi
Other response, he said, I make thee not,Except the doing; for the modest asking
Ought to be followed by the deed in silence. — Dante Alighieri
Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.
— William Shakespeare
What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
— Mary Oliver
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
— Philip Johnson
To be modest in speaking truth is hypocrisy. TM-ST-95
— Kahlil Gibran
Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
I'm not too modest of a person. I've got a pretty blue sense of humor.
— Michelle Monaghan
The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love.
— Gustave Flaubert
Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.
— Steven Pressfield
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
— Augustus Hare
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
— John Ruskin
We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost
— George McGovern
Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.
— Jonathan Weiner
Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.
— William Shakespeare
The world spares only those who remain modest and humble - and even then only for an interval, no more.
— Sandor Marai
Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.
— Malcolm Gladwell
After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.
— Christian Bale
Forgot the blush that virgin fears impartTo modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art. — William Cowper
What is the use of fine feelings when pitted against the power of instinct? And what chance does modest restraint have against that of natural desire?
— Guy De Maupassant
I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.
— Colin Farrell
Modest humility is beauty's crown.
— Friedrich Schiller
Modest. When they meet me, they think I'm going to be outgoing, but I like things low-key. I don't like people to think I'm bragging.
— Laura Prepon
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
— Jules Renard
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
— Franz Grillparzer
I was born modest, but it didn't last.
— Mark Twain
In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
The good times are killing me
— Modest Mouse
It is hard to be modest at times like these so I won't even try ... you are all shite!
— Noel Gallagher
Modest women choose a man by the mind, not the eye.
— Publilius Syrus
An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.
— Sidney Poitier
I sometimes wonder how you live with such a modest sense of romance," Barrett says. "Superstition and romance are not the same thing.
— Michael Cunningham
Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
— Abraham Cahan
Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.
— Martin Feldstein
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.
— William Blake
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
— Mary Wortley Montagu