Modest Quotes - Page 3

• I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness

  Drew Brees

  Swagger, Moments, Cockiness

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

  E. W. Howe

  Humility, People, Modesty

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• Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

  Paul Rand

  Inspirational, Ideas, Goal

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• Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

  William J. Clinton

  Mean, People, Together

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• At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Heart, Humility, Pride

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.237, Open Road Media

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• To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo of loveliness around every person who possesses it, making their countenances beam with light, and their society desirable because of its excellency. They are loved of God, of holy angels, and of all the good earth, while they are hated, envied, admired, and feared by the wicked.

  Brigham Young

  Integrity, Angel, Light

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.240

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• The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mean, Things In Life, Leisure

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• If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Errors, Wish

  Benjamin Franklin (2016). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.21, First Avenue Editions

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• If you respect your body enough to put modest clothes on, then more people will respect you as a person.

  Sadie Robertson

  Clothes, People, Body

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• You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.

  Lisa Randall

  Distance, Weak, Gravity

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• The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly.

  Derek Bok

  School, College, Entering

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• 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 better without them, and I believe you will feel better without them. As for the young women, you do not need to drape rings up and down your ears. One modest pair of earrings is sufficient.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Believe, Feel Better, Men

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• The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

  James Agate

  Travel, Home, Men

  James Agate (1951). “The Later Ego: Consisting of Ego 8 and Ego 9”

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• 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 dingily succeed.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Hate, Safety, Ambitious

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• One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts pitching bricks and rocks at the student union- just imagine they are wearing brown shirts or white sheets- and act accordingly.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Education, Rocks, White

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.

  Robert Zoellick

  Challenges, Important, Size

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• 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 the soul, whose aims may be diametrically different... The nourishment of the dreamworld is a reciprocal affair: as we provide for it, it provides for us.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Dream, Healing, Perfect

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• It's in their modest home. You go into their kitchen and serve yourself. It's all homemade. It's authentic Italian.

  Graham Spanier

  Home, Italian, Kitchen

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• Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.

  Barton Seaver

  Space, Age, Needs

  "Sustainable Grilling With Barton Seaver". Interview with Esther Sung, www.epicurious.com. May 21, 2013.

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• That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection ever present in their minds, an ideal infinitely clearer and greater than any common people have, and they also realize how far they are from fulfilling their ideal.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Men, Ideas, People

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• Corney & Barrow are proud to have the royal warrant, meaning that they provide the Palace with some of the greatest - and necessarily most expensive - wines from around the world. I am pleased to say that they also hold my own warrant, for providing exceptional wines at - surprisingly - modest prices.

  Simon Hoggart

  Wine, World, Proud

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• A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Humble, Men, Vain

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.275

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• ... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.

  George Eliot

  Selfish, Gentleman, Vices

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By George Eliot ....”, p.354

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• I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to criticize it (unfairly, given my original modest intention) or to carry it far beyond the limits of what I then thought justified. This was why I may have seemed to backtrack.

  Richard Dawkins

  Numbers, Atheism, Culture

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Two, Needs

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