Modest Quotes
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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
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I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.
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Impact on consumer spending and production broadly will be modest.
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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.
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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.
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I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.
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I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.
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It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.
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I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.
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Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing that the longest journey starts with one step.
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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.
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I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing. Then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique.
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It is hard to be modest at times like these so I won't even try...you are all shite!
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Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
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In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
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I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
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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.
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So far, the effects appear to be relatively modest on growth.
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Be merciful, moderate, and modest.
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As long as we find that the energy impact is only temporary ... my guess is that the effects on the overall economy will be fairly modest.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, / May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear.
