quotes about Modest
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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I had a very modest upbringing.
-- Balthazar GettySource : "Michelle Dockery Talks DOWNTON ABBEY Season 2". Interview, collider.com. December 30, 2011.
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True gastronomy is making the most of what is available, however modest.
-- Claudia RodenSource : Claudia Roden (1984). “Everything tastes better outdoors”, Random House Inc
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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 HallSource : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
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The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.
-- George Gershwin -
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I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.
-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
Give me a little peace. A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought.
-- James Goldman -
Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.
-- James Joyce -
My strengths—which are really quite modest—are limited to me, but with my weaknesses the possibilities are boundless.
-- Jason Gray -
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No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.
-- John Galt -
What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
-- Mary Oliver -
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
-- Michael Cunningham -
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I'm not too modest of a person. I've got a pretty blue sense of humor.
-- Michelle Monaghan -
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
-- Orson WellesSource : Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich (1992). “This is Orson Welles”, HarperCollins Publishers
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You are a sick, sick man,†I told him. “Thank you,†Ben replied, looking modest.
-- Patricia Briggs -
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
-- Paul TherouxSource : Paul Theroux (1986). “Sunrise with Seamonsters”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
-- Philip JohnsonSource : "Philip Johnson: What I've Learned". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1999.
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Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!
-- Steven Wright -
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Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.
-- William Cowper -
Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. ...
-- Yohji Yamamoto -
Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.
-- Allen W. Wood -
I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.
-- Craig Venter -
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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 -
I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.
-- Ronnie Dunn -
My strengths—which are really quite modest—are limited to me, but with my weaknesses the possibilities are boundless.
-- Jason Gray -
We have to be more modest in what we claim.
-- Kenneth ArrowSource : Source: www.minneapolisfed.org
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