Modest Quotes

In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!

If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.

People always tell me I'm too modest, and that I'm allowed to tell myself now and then that I'm good at something. Well okay then, the bathroom is very (beautiful) clean right now.

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.

When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

I make the modest proposal that psychiatric care should be as easy to get as bullets at Wal-Mart.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Christian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do in a modest way, and with a disposition of indescribable tenderness.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.

The drop in pending home sales is an affirmation that we are experiencing a modest slowing in the housing sector.

When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve.

I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness

I'm a very modest person.

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.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

The annoying thing about being modest is that you can't brag about it.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

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.

May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

I'm much too modest a person.

The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

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.

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

Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.

Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]

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

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.

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.