Modest Quotes

412 quotes by 355 authors

First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather,… — Julianna Baggott
I'll never forget my first fur. It was a modest little stole. Modest? People thought I was wearing anchovies. — Phyllis Diller
If you respect your body enough to put modest clothes on, then more people will respect you as a person, — Sadie Robertson
To the leaders of the cinema still to come, I can offer only a few words drawn from my modest experience. You must ceaselessly formulate… — Nagisa Oshima
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the… — Joseph Nye
Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy… — Jonathan Carroll
I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest. — Tony Hayward
I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty… — Benjamin Graham
It is hard to be modest at times like these so I won't even try...you are all shite! — Noel Gallagher
Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages, and… — Henry Hazlitt
There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine,… — J. Cole
Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid… — Mikhail Gorbachev
If I want to free myself from endless cycles of struggling with temptation, I need to keep rediscovering that the pain of the struggle is… — Sylvia Boorstein
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing is an undertaking for the modest. — Marianne Moore
You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance. — George Bernard Shaw
I think I will be the most dressed [contestant and have] the most modest outfits for sure because thatâ€™s who I am, — Bristol Palin
Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of… — Molly Ivins
It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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