I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
People who have never run even a modest little business assert with great certainty and indignation that heads of multinational corporations are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Facebook draws from the public and public-interest sphere, a simultaneously bold and modest step towards acknowledging that our new networked technologies deeply… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how much we… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The truth is, no matter how modest Steven [Sebring] is, he was obsessed with the outcome of the film [Dream of Life].… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Love is a modest and immodest teacher who will bring you through the school of existence, which is the heart. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I guess it's keep your head up, right? Killin' 'em with kindness 'cause they hate it when you're polite. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount… — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Rarely do outside of school remedies work their way into the fabric of the schools or into the teachers lives, and more… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
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