Modest Quotes

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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have… — H. L. Mencken
When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest… — Donald Trump
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and nobody can go… — Tacitus
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… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk… — Heinrich Heine
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping… — John Donne
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,… — Paul Klee
A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest,… — George Polya
I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear little regimental officers… — Jean Larteguy
Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak… — Owen Feltham
Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its absence… — Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: 'I don't… — Yohji Yamamoto
Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth. — Luc de Clapiers
A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to… — Abraham Lincoln
Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless. — James C. Collins
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own… — Ayn Rand
Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music. — William Shakespeare
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of… — Alfred Tarski
Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal. — Amory Lovins

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