Modest famous quotes

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Humble #Simple #Modest

I had a very modest upbringing.
-- Balthazar Getty

#Modest #Upbringing

True gastronomy is making the most of what is available, however modest.
-- Claudia Roden

#Modest

I'm a very modest person.
-- Drew Brees

#Modest #Persons

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
-- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

#World #Goodness #Modest

Modest humility is beauty's crown.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Humility #Crowns #Modest

The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.
-- George Gershwin

#Mother #Modest #Extraordinary Things

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
-- Horace

#Speech #Action #Modest

I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.
-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#Shy #Outgoing #Modest

Give me a little peace. A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought.
-- James Goldman

#Giving #Littles #Modest

Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.
-- James Joyce

#Eating #Modest #Wells

My strengths—which are really quite modest—are limited to me, but with my weaknesses the possibilities are boundless.
-- Jason Gray

#Weakness #Possibility #Modest

The blushing beauties of a modest maid.
-- John Dryden

#Maids #Blushing #Modest

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.
-- John Galt

#Mind #Matter #Modest

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
-- Mary Oliver

#Life #Breathing #Modest

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
-- Michael Cunningham

#Death #Dimensions #Modest

I'm not too modest of a person. I've got a pretty blue sense of humor.
-- Michelle Monaghan

#Blue #Sense Of Humor #Modest

A modest woman has good children.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Children #Modest

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
-- Orson Welles

#Tough #Bigs #Modest

You are a sick, sick man,” I told him. “Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Men #Sick #Modest

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Strength #Awareness #Modest

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
-- Paul Theroux

#Gains #Reputation #Modest

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
-- Philip Johnson

#Arrogant #Architect #Modest

Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!
-- Steven Wright

#Trying #Proud #Modest

Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.
-- William Cowper

#Art #Modest #Virgins

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. ...
-- Yohji Yamamoto

#Black #Arrogant #Modest

Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.
-- Allen W. Wood

#Talent #Modest #Contribution

I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.
-- Craig Venter

#Goal #Modest #Industry

I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.
-- David Starkey

#Kings #Henry V #Modest

I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.
-- Ronnie Dunn

#Never Forget #Grew Up #Modest

My strengths—which are really quite modest—are limited to me, but with my weaknesses the possibilities are boundless.
-- Jason Gray

#Weakness #Possibility #Modest

We have to be more modest in what we claim.
-- Kenneth Arrow

#Claims #Modest