Modest Quotes
412 quotes by 344 authors
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when…
— David Rubenstein
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I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.
— Chely Wright
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Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away…
— John Ralston Saul
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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…
— William Greider
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By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will…
— Propertius
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'Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord' (Heb. 12:14), Why did he say 'strive'?…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval…
— John Updike
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It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we…
— Carl Jung
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The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.
— Adolf Hitler
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Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.
— Daniel Dennett
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If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline…
— Margaret Halsey
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If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before…
— P T Barnum
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The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy…
— Michael Eisner
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I'm a very modest person.
— Drew Brees
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I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my…
— Marco Arment
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The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal…
— Kent Conrad
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My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to…
— Brooklyn Decker
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I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.
— Ronnie Dunn
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Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence…
— William A. Dembski
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