Modest Quotes

Although I am a strong political conservative, I now believe that the costs of our fruitless struggle against illegal drugs are not worth the modest benefits likely to be achieved.

She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.

He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind.

Love is a modest and immodest teacher who will bring you through the school of existence, which is the heart.

That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.

I'm actually quite modest. All I want is a nice car. All I want is a drink at midnight on Sunday night and I'll be a very happy man.

I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting.

A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far it soon becomes poisonous.

I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

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

I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.

Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to your creditors.

It's in their modest home. You go into their kitchen and serve yourself. It's all homemade. It's authentic Italian.

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.

The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.

Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing that the longest journey starts with one step.

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.

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

I really had a great time working with Modest Mouse, just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.

I'm not trying to be modest of self-deprecating or in any way trying to do that.

Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders.

I don't think that I'm modest by any means, but I'm also not an exhibitionist.

Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.

This was my modest dream come true: unambitious flight. The kind that never even got high enough for a view.

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.

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

I never dreamed about one day becoming Secretary of State. It's not that I was modest; it's just that I had never seen a Secretary of State in a skirt.

Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

Only someone who already knows and likes you is likely to give you a good job with modest relevant experience.

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

Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

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.

I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.

When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!"

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

You are a sick, sick man,” I told him. “Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.

The truth is, no matter how modest Steven [Sebring] is, he was obsessed with the outcome of the film [Dream of Life]. Every single frame was important to him.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

I'll never forget my first fur. It was a modest little stole. Modest? People thought I was wearing anchovies.

Modest women choose a man by the mind, not the eye.

A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.

Jill was tall and slim, like most Moroi. With that figure came a modest chest. Angeline's chest...was not so modest.