Modest Quotes

412 quotes by 355 authors

The date is not important. The age is not important. Time is not important. Life is very fleeting. Itâ€™s important to be gentle and optimistic.… — Oscar Niemeyer
For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being. — Franz Beckenbauer
Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not find that it tends to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling. — Woody Allen
Be modest in speech, but excel in action. — Horace
I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader. — Pol Pot
The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous. — Barbara Cartland
The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale. — Charlotte Bunch
Globally, emissions may have to be reduced, the scientists are telling us, by as much as 60% or 70%, with developed countries likely to have… — Michael Meacher
The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been adopted… — John L. Harper
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — Socrates
The free market is notorious for distributing resources in a highly unequal manner, with great concentrations of wealth at the top and poverty at the… — Linda McQuaig
We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force. — Barack Obama
A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous. — Mary Wollstonecraft
May I mention earrings and rings placed in other parts of the body. These are not manly. They are not attractive. You young men look… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it. — James Agate
Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than… — Vita Sackville-West
By and large, the Healing Dream is not the defender of our waking goals-material achievement, perfect romance, a modest niche in history-but an advocate-general for… — Marc Ian Barasch
...I think it was a modest thing I did (Fahrenheit 9/11) ... this is an election year ... I'm not telling them how to vote.… — Linda Ronstadt
Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. — Ambrose Bierce

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