Modest Quotes

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.

People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Publicly I'm a very modest dresser, by Hollywood's standards.

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.

I'm a very modest person.

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

On their own merits modest men are dumb.

I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.

I had a very modest upbringing.

I'm very, very modest.

A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.

I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.