Top 100 Quotes About Modest
#2. The next day Mrs Honeyfoot told her husband that John Segundus was exactly what a gentleman should be, but she feared he would never profit by it for it was not the fashion to be modest and quiet and kind-hearted.
Susanna Clarke
#3. Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since most people are pretty modest instead of an arrogant S.O.B. like me, what comes naturally, you don't see as a special skill. It's just you. It's what you've always done.
Stephen Jay Gould
#4. How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.
Laozi
#5. Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
Jules Renard
#6. The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.
Herman Wouk
#7. Thought dismally. No doubt a more modest future awaited him.
Ken Follett
#8. Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.
Val Kilmer
#9. All women dress to be noticed: gross and vulgar women to be grossly and vulgarly noticed, wise and modest women to be wisely and modestly noticed.
G.K. Chesterton
#10. Desert Storm II would be in a walk in the park ... The case for 'regime change' boils down to the huge benefits and modest costs of liberating Iraq.
Kenneth Adelman
#12. A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#13. Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
Virginia Woolf
#14. In all prospering human affairs there is a streak of hazard, a blending of good fortune with good judgment which gives the lucky man a sense of having earned his deserts and gives the deserving, if he is modest, an awareness of his luck. That
Winston Graham
#15. All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
Paul Auster
#16. I almost envied him the possession of this modest and clear flame.
Virginia Woolf
#17. Wear modest, clean clothing. Your clothing doesn't need to be new and [it] should have some fashion of course, but [it] should be clean, modest, and neat. Be dignified in your outward manner and in your inward morality.
Bruce R. McConkie
#18. I was in heaven, I was in hell, Believe in neither, But fear them as well.
Modest Mouse
#20. It's in their modest home. You go into their kitchen and serve yourself. It's all homemade. It's authentic Italian.
Graham Spanier
#21. I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.
Taron Egerton
#22. If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare,
One cordial in this melancholy vale,
'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair
In other's arms breathe out the tender tale
Robert Burns
#23. Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
Modest Mussorgsky
#25. Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'
Maya Angelou
#26. I'm very modest. I know that baseball is a very humbling game.
David Wright
#27. My philosophy is very much to encourage my children to forge their own success and happiness, even though that will undoubtedly involve much more modest levels of wealth creation.
John Caudwell
#28. Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#29. Facebook draws from the public and public-interest sphere, a simultaneously bold and modest step towards acknowledging that our new networked technologies deeply affect our lives in ways not always captured or best shaped by the typical template of consumer and seller.
Jonathan Zittrain
#30. Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#31. I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.
Michele Bachmann
#32. 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.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
#33. I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
Nancy Lublin
#34. A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#35. I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.
George Bernard Shaw
#36. One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat
Siegbert Tarrasch
#37. 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
#38. Confidence and courage are special skills to the art ... Within the four walls of his study, the artist should be modest, work diligently and conscientiously. While for the public, he'll show himself audacious, yes even into cheerful boldness. And so a new public's darling has arisen.
Robert Schumann
#39. Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.
Benito Mussolini
#41. 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
#42. Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.
Donald Rumsfeld
#43. I am thinking of the onion again ... Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
Erica Jong
#44. There is little more I can add short of dissecting the man, or going into intimate details such as the modest proportions and slight southeasterly curvature of his manhood.
Felix J. Palma
#45. Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit,
For works may have more with than does 'em good,
As bodies perish through excess of blood.
Alexander Pope
#46. Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.
Amory Lovins
#47. Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
Joseph Nye
#48. May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.
Leigh Hunt
#50. Though her grasp of English was modest and his Italian non-existent, their rapport was at once intuitive and intimate, founded more on physical attraction and a shared love of the outdoors than meaningful conversation.
Robert Radcliffe
#51. You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.
Lisa Randall
#52. For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.
Franz Beckenbauer
#53. I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are like a reservoir of stories, and if I can act as a similar kind of "reservoir," albeit a modest one, that would make me very happy.
Haruki Murakami
#54. Witnessing the moonrise each month, a person cannot resist noting a modest sense of optimism tugging at his or her enclosed capsule of bodily fluids.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#55. I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats.
John Updike
#56. 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.
Joseph Conrad
#57. Now, I know some women have issues with their bodies. Maybe you've got a little extra junk in the trunk? Get over it. Doesn't matter. Naked kicks Modest's ass every single time. Men are visual. We wouldn't be fucking you if we didn't want to look at you. You can write that down if you like.
Emma Chase
#58. 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
#59. The bottom line is this: Cash, in modest increments, has a role in any portfolio. But unless you are Warren Buffett, you should limit it to 2 or 3 percent.
Barry Ritholtz
#60. The days get longer and the nights smell green I guess it's not surprising but it's spring and I should leave.
Modest Mouse
#61. And evidently it was a well-known fact that a single vicar, in possession of a modest fortune, must be in need of a wife.
Trisha Ashley
#62. The density of settlement of economists over the whole empire of economic science is very uneven, with a few areas of modest size holding the bulk of the population.
Herbert A. Simon
#63. Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.
Martin Feldstein
#64. Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
#65. IT IS A MISTAKE to suppose that all men, or at least all Englishmen, want to be free. On the contrary, if freedom entails responsibility, many of them want none of it. They would happily exchange their liberty for a modest (if illusory) security.
Theodore Dalrymple
#66. That was a heroic deed." Embarrassed, Eragon scuffed his boots against the ground. "I wouldn't have survived if not for Arya." "You are too modest, Argetlam," she admonished. "It was you who struck the final blow.
Christopher Paolini
#67. The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.
Alice Meynell
#68. The morning behind the dark mist, the mighty and gracious cloud in the sky, scepter of power to the modest grounds yielding fruitfulness, you are the ALMIGHTY.
Darmie Orem
#69. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
Bill Bryson
#70. The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected.
Howard W. Hunter
#71. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime
Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime;
An age that melts with unperceived decay,
And glides in modest Innocence away
Samuel Johnson
#72. I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.
Sylvia Earle
#74. I run a modest-sized laboratory that's looking specifically at what we call 'the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.'
Anthony Fauci
#75. A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist.
Louis Menand
#76. Be modest, be humble, be simple,
Amy Chua
#77. 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
#78. There's nothing as universal as the weekend and one's modest hopes for it.
Ed Park
#79. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger.
William Shakespeare
#81. Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.
Malcolm Gladwell
#82. The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly.
Derek Bok
#83. I have been incredibly fortunate to be able to work with good directors and for me it's not really a plan each time I'm on a set with one of them; I think about what I can learn from them because I'm very aware that my filmmaking skills are very modest.
Sacha Baron Cohen
#84. Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#85. Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.
Robert Schumann
#87. I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money ... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.
Marco Arment
#88. If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of light through the ear for conception perhaps and a well-fitting hatch somewhere modest for escape nine months later.)
Kate Atkinson
#89. 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
#90. Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.
Dan Millman
#91. Failure Is Not Permanent, So Is The Success. So, Don't Look Down Upon People Who Are Failed While You're Succeeded. Table Can Turn Anytime. Be Gentle To Every Creation, It Ain't Cost A Thing ...
Muhammad Imran Hasan
#93. Modesty is a learned adaptation. It's stuck on like decals. As soon as life slams a modest person against the wall, that modesty will fall off faster than a G-string will fall off a stripper.
Maya Angelou
#94. I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
Quentin Tarantino
#96. Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.
Neville Cardus
#97. What I do on stage, you won't catch me doing off stage. I mean, I think deep down I'm still kind of, like, timid and modest about a lot of things. But on stage, I release all that; I let it
go.
Selena
#98. Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
Lakhdar Brahimi
#99. I'm not too modest of a person. I've got a pretty blue sense of humor.
Michelle Monaghan
#100. I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.
Jane Austen
