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The Chinese have an excellent proverb: Be modest in speech, but excel in action  (Modest Quotes) I grew up very modest, and I never forget that  (Modest Quotes) Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest  (Modest Quotes) The extraordinary thing about my mother, she’s so modest about me  (Modest Quotes) A modest man never talks of himself  (Modest Quotes) An age that melts in unperceived decay, and glides in modest innocence away  (Modest Quotes) Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off  (Modest Quotes) Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey  (Modest Quotes) Modest humility is beauty’s crown  (Modest Quotes) Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason  (Modest Quotes) What potent blood hath modest May  (Modest Quotes) Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; or close the wall up with our english dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility: but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger  (Modest Quotes) There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It’s about 20 steps away.  (Modest Quotes) My parents lived a modest life, and their main concern was the education of their children. My father was a self-taught man but had a great intellectual curiosity, not only for biblical and talmudic texts, but also for philosophy, psychoanalysis and history.  (Modest Quotes) Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man  (Modest Quotes) They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation  (Modest Quotes) What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman  (Modest Quotes) I am arrogant enough to wish I were modest as he and modest enough to know that this is arrogance  (Modest Quotes) The annoying thing about being modest is that you can’t brag about it  (Modest Quotes) Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music: therefore the poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, but music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils  (Modest Quotes) Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, a soldier should be modest as a maid  (Modest Quotes) I’m quite modest. I don’t want to tell people I’m a leader  (Modest Quotes) If you want to build a major firm, you cannot do it by having a modest vision  (Modest Quotes) Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader  (Modest Quotes) Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy  (Modest Quotes) The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy  (Modest Quotes) The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and nobody can go ashore unnoticed by the guards. Its winter is mild because it is enclosed by a range of mountains which keeps out the fierce temperature; its summer is unequal. The open sea is very pleasant and it has a view of a beautiful bay  (Modest Quotes) Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops  (Modest Quotes) Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office  (Modest Quotes) The truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how much we make our own reality  (Modest Quotes)
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