Modest Quotes

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

True gastronomy is making the most of what is available, however modest.

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

A modest woman has good children.

Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.

Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not.

The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.

Modest humility is beauty's crown.

To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.

I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.

I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

My strengths—which are really quite modest—are limited to me, but with my weaknesses the possibilities are boundless.

I had a very modest upbringing.

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

It is hard to be modest at times like these so I won't even try...you are all shite!

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.

I'm a very modest person.

I'm much too modest a person.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

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

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

A modest man never talks of himself.

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

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

The blushing beauties of a modest maid.

Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

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

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.

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

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

Be merciful, moderate, and modest.

I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.

We have to be more modest in what we claim.

Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

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

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

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