Modest Quotes

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On Saturday morning, one of the two teams still unbeaten in the Premiership occupied a modest seventh place. It is an illustration of the relentless… — Pete Gill
One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat — Siegbert Tarrasch
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have… — Mark Twain
Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful. — William Makepeace Thackeray
We still have a great amount of work to do in social development, including resolving one of the biggest challenges we face in this area,… — Vladimir Putin
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending for… — John Kenneth Galbraith
While both denominations maintain missions in Asia and Africa in order to win new followers for their doctrine- an activity which can boast but very… — Adolf Hitler
I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do think that everything… — Tim Winton
What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? — Mary Oliver
What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are… — Frank Moore Colby
The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to… — Saint Francis de Sales
Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious. — Virginia Woolf
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. — Oliver Goldsmith
I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state.… — Albert Einstein
Up till now, we can suppose, nervous systems solved the Now what do I do? problem by a relatively simple balancing act between a strictly… — Daniel Dennett
I had a very modest upbringing. — Balthazar Getty
Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form. — Douglas Wilson
Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of oneâ€™s usual setting,… — Nicolas Bouvier

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