Modest Quotes

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.

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.

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.

Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.

Our clothing, while modest and simple, should be of good quality . . . It should be chosen for durability rather than display.

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.

Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.

Give me a little peace. A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought.

When a woman veils her body in modest clothing, she is not hiding herself from men. On the contrary, she is revealing her dignity to them.

The blushing beauties of a modest maid.

Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.

I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.

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.

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

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.

We have to be more modest in what we claim.

Be merciful, moderate, and modest.

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.

When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.

One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.

He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly

All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.

My dream is much more modest than the dreams of the founding fathers. My dream is for Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and at peace with itself. This will be sufficient for me.

Be modest, be humble, be simple.

One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.

I run a modest-sized laboratory thats looking specifically at what we call the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.

We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force.

Abraham Lincoln is resolute, honest, has the best interest of the nation at heart, and he's as ugly as homemade Sunday sin, so he is modest, too. I'd vote for that in an undead heartbeat.

I think I will be the most dressed [contestant and have] the most modest outfits for sure because that's who I am.

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

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.

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

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

The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.

I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

I'm very modest. I know that baseball is a very humbling game.

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.

The global conservation organisations are doing everything they can on modest budgets. They essentially promote setting aside reserves and parks around the world.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

Christian sisters should not at any time dress extravagantly, but at all times dress as neat, modest, and healthful, as their work will allow.