Modest And Humble Quotes

#1. The world spares only those who remain modest and humble - and even then only for an interval, no more.

Sandor Marai

#2. In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people ...

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#3. Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

C.V. Wedgwood

#4. It's a miserable thing to leave behind a world which still holds secrets. I

Victor Pelevin

#5. And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.

Lee Ann Womack

#6. The modest Rose puts forth a Thorn.
The humble Sheep a threat'ning Horn.
While the Lily white shall in love delight.
Nor a Thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

William Blake

#7. I've stuck by being modest, honest and humble, because I think you'll get more appreciated that way and we all want to be appreciated in this world.

Dwyane Wade

#8. Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Frank Moore Colby

#9. I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#10. 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

#11. Your humble correspondent realizes that many readers are left-wing, anti-string-theory fighters. So they probably smoke marijuana and this is my modest attempt to help them.

Lubos Motl

#12. There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.

Rumi

#13. So get rid of all uncleanness and the rampant outgrowth of wickedness, and in a humble (gentle, modest) spirit receive and welcome the Word which implanted and rooted [in your hearts] contains the power to save your souls. James 1:21

Joyce Meyer

#14. Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.

Walter Brueggemann

#15. The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.

Barbara Holland

#16. 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

#17. Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.

Amy Chua

#18. You see? There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that's what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant - (sighs deeply). Oh, fuck it.

-M. Gustave, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Wes Anderson

#19. I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

Vladimir Nabokov

#20. I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more modest, more humble, more appreciative. The off the field tragedies put things in better perspective, but life happens to everybody, and I think we all just try to do the best we can.

Brett Favre

#21. Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Abraham Cahan

#22. A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#23. If a solution fails to appear ... and yet we feel success is just around the corner, try resting for a while ... Like the early morning frost, this intellectual refreshment withers the parasitic and nasty vegetation that smothers the good seed. Bursting forth at last is the flower of truth.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#24. TV is a very sensitive thing. If you're not happy with what you're doing, I don't think you should do it because you will do it for awhile.

Bill Skarsgard

#25. Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

Nancy Gibbs

#26. You marvel and applaud big heroes in their big heroic actions, and forget you are a hero in your humble life and have modest heroic actions to complete yourself.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#27. A blown kiss is not a proper kiss. Hugs and kisses should be hugs and kisses, not breaths of air. I am tired of breaths of air and not enough hugs and kisses.

Claire King

#28. Be modest, be humble, be simple,

Amy Chua

#29. You know that a lot of people go to emergency rooms when they don't really need to.

Steven Burd

#30. Why, he's Hercule Poirot! You know who I mean - the private detective. They say he's done the most wonderful things - just like detectives do in books.

Agatha Christie

#31. Society is constituted by the mental interaction of individuals and exists wherever two or three individuals have reciprocal conscious relations to each other.

Charles Abram Ellwood

#32. Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.

Luc De Clapiers

#33. That holy, humble, meek, modest, retiring Form, sometimes called the Spirit of Prayer, has been dragged from the closet, and so rudely handled by some of her professed friends, that she has not only lost all her wonted loveliness, but is now stalking the street, in some places, stark mad.

Asahel Nettleton

#34. A man who will not die to save a woman is no man.

Robert Jordan

#35. With vinyl you had twenty-two minutes per side. CDs came along, and you had sixty, seventy, eighty minutes and people felt like they had to fill them up. They were like those Fuji apples from Japan. They look like perfect, super-gigantic versions of American apples.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#36. Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.

Albert Einstein

#37. Men will spend their health getting wealth. Then, gladly pay all they have earned to get health back.

Mike Murdock