Modest Quotes

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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism. — Jorge Luis Borges
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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare. — Daniel Dennett
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
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
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
I'm a very modest person. — Drew Brees
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
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
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
I grew up very modest, and I never forget that. — Ronnie Dunn
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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