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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

No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth ... — Isaac Asimov

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

True gastronomy is making the most of what is available, however modest. — Claudia Roden

My ambitions at this point are modest and mostly surround staying alive. — David Foster Wallace

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

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 very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos. — Carl Sagan

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

Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey. — Dan Millman

Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest. — Gary Weiss

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

Regular, modest failures are actually essential to many forms of resilience. — Andrew Zolli

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

Thought dismally. No doubt a more modest future awaited him. — Ken Follett

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off. — Val Kilmer

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

I'm very, very modest. — Angie Harmon

You will not see me dressed in plain, modest outfits. — Anna Netrebko

I was in heaven, I was in hell, Believe in neither, But fear them as well. — Modest Mouse

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

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them. — E.W. Howe

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 annoying thing about being modest is that you can't brag about it. — Gene Brown

The true angler is generally a modest man..... — Thaddeus Norris

The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras. — Mason Cooley

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

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest. — Andre Gide

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

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing? — Robert Adams

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

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — Socrates

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music. — Johnny Marr

I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry. — Craig Venter

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

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy. — Owen Feltham

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 impart
To 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

He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure. — John Cheever

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

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. — David Heyman

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

History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose. — J. H. Plumb

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

The more modest your expectations, the less often you will court disappointment. — Dorothy Dunnett

Sweet Goddess, born of a blinding light and a changing wind, don't be modest - you know who you are and where you've been. — Bob Dylan

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune. — Mary Wortley Montagu