A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
True gastronomy is making the most of what is available, however modest. — Claudia Roden Copy Share Image
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family. — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
It's in their modest home. You go into their kitchen and serve yourself. It's all homemade. It's authentic Italian. — Graham Spanier Copy Share Image
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… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
My strengths—which are really quite modest—are limited to me, but with my weaknesses the possibilities are boundless. — Jason Gray Copy Share Image
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Your humble correspondent realizes that many readers are left-wing, anti-string-theory fighters. So they probably smoke marijuana and this is my modest attempt… — Lubos Motl Copy Share Image
Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Christian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do in a… — Charles Seymour Robinson Copy Share Image
I work hard, and I haven't done badly in life. But I pretty much came from very modest roots... I go home… — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that… — Molly Ivins 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
Although I am a strong political conservative, I now believe that the costs of our fruitless struggle against illegal drugs are not… — Ernest Van den Haag Copy Share Image
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks… — Joseph Nye Copy Share Image
On Saturday morning, one of the two teams still unbeaten in the Premiership occupied a modest seventh place. It is an illustration… — Pete Gill Copy Share Image
By and large, the Healing Dream is not the defender of our waking goals-material achievement, perfect romance, a modest niche in history-but… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Vaclav Havel was the most amazing man in terms of being the combination of somebody with massive moral authority, great courage for… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
We still have a great amount of work to do in social development, including resolving one of the biggest challenges we face… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The impact of QE on generating more lending by Wall Street to Main Street and in generating more employment and increasing overall… — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm modest so much as I'm realistic. I know what I can do and what I can't do. I… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say "I" and "me." "It will probably rain" - that is dogmatic. "I… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
