Modest Quotes - Page 22

• People always tell me I'm too modest, and that I'm allowed to tell myself now and then that I'm good at something. Well okay then, the bathroom is very (beautiful) clean right now.

  Willemijn Verkaik

  Beautiful, People, Bathroom

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• For some years now I have been considering the idea of making a watch that our agents could sell at a more modest price than our Rolex watches, and yet one that could attain the standards of dependability for which Rolex is famous, I decided to form a separate company, with the object of making and marketing this new watch. It is called the Tudor Watch Company.

  Hans Wilsdorf

  Years, Ideas, Marketing

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• Modest. When they meet me, they think I'm going to be outgoing, but I like things low-key. I don't like people to think I'm bragging.

  Laura Prepon

  Thinking, Keys, People

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• The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

  William Blake

  Men, Self, Knaves

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.386, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Want, Too Much, Taste

  Henry Van Dyke (1908). “Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness”

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• I've stuck by being modest, honest and humble, because I think you'll get more appreciated that way and we all want to be appreciated in this world.

  Dwyane Wade

  Humble, Thinking, World

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• I'm very modest. I know that baseball is a very humbling game.

  David Wright

  Baseball, Games, Humbling

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• It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just as the pleasure principle itself, indeed, under the influence of the external world, changed into the more modest reality principle -, if a man thinks himself happy merely to have escaped unhappiness or to have survived his suffering, and if in general the task of avoiding suffering pushes that of obtaining pleasure into the background.

  Sigmund Freud

  Reality, Men, Thinking

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• After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

  Christian Bale

  Expectations, Firsts, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It's about 20 steps away.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sides, Steps, Far Away

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• We pray for a generation of girls who will display their wit, their intelligence, their modest charm, their integrity, their loveliness rather than their bodies and their sexual possibilities.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Girl, Integrity, Generations

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• The spectator and historian of [Belisarius's] exploits has observed, that amidst the perils of war, he was daring without rashness, prudent without fear, slow or rapid according to the exigencies of the moment; that in the deepest distress he was animated by real or apparent hope, but that he was modest and humble in the most prosperous fortune.

  Edward Gibbon

  Real, War, Humble

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.143

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• If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live under more modest circumstances. But all those new branches of industry which supply the masses with articles unheard of before, would operate, if at all, on a much smaller scale, and their products would be beyond the reach of the common man.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Would Be, Branches

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.

  Chantal Joffe

  Way, Photographer, Paint

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Reality is modest, it won't be seen naked.

  Deepak Chopra

  Reality, Naked

  Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow (2011). “War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not”, p.291, Harmony

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• Ambitions for self may be quite modest. . . . Ambitions for God, however, if they are to be worthy, can never be modest. There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God. How can we ever be content that he should acquire just a little more honour in the world? No. Once we are clear that God is King, then we long to see him crowned with glory and honour, and accorded his true place, which is the supreme place. We become ambitious for the spread of his kingdom and righteousness everywhere.

  John Stott

  Kings, Ambition, Self

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• Most of the people in the upper income brackets are not rich and do not have wealth sheltered offshore. They are typically working people who have finally reached their peak earning years after many years of far more modest incomes-and now see much of what they have worked for siphoned off by politicians, to the accompaniment of lofty rhetoric.

  Thomas Sowell

  Years, People, Earning

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• Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.

  Ian Hislop

  Pride, Proud, Modesty

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• Well, the questioner came from Singapore, which has perhaps the best economic record in the history of developing an economy. And therefore he referred to 15 percent per annum as modest. It's not modest, it's arrogant.

  Charlie Munger

  Records, Arrogant, Economic

  "1997 Annual Meeting". buffett.cnbc.com. May 5, 1997.

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• Rarely do outside of school remedies work their way into the fabric of the schools or into the teachers lives, and more rarely into the classrooms. Therefore they only offer a modest hope of influencing the basic culture of the school

  Roland Barthes

  Teacher, School, Culture

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• I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Song, Order, Funeral

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• Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Beautiful, Expression, Genius

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• The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost interest in his work. He got caught in a storm with a bunch of samples in his arms.

  Shelley Berman

  Storm, Lightning, Arms

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• I'm not modest about myself. I know for a fact that I am good. But good in the sense that I can put things together. I expound vociferously to students of architecture and photography, the significance of design. A photograph is a design in which you assemble thoughts in your mind.

  Julius Shulman

  Photography, Design, Mind

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• The climate's sensitivity to greenhouse gases is considerably lower than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims - so much lower, in fact, that the warming we would expect from doubling the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would be quite modest and offer very little risk.

  Kenneth P. Green

  Risk, Atmosphere, Littles

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