Quotes of Modest - somelinesforyou

“ Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. ”

- Confucius

“ Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise. ”

- Frank Moore Colby

“ Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. ”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“ Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person. ”

- Horace

“ How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names. ”

- Alice Walker

“ What the people want is very simple — they want an America as good as its promise. ”

- Barbara Jordan

“ Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad. ”

- Mitch Miller

“ To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet. ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ It's a simple formula: do your best and somebody might like it. ”

- Dorothy Baker

“ I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams. ”

- Kenny Cunningham

“ Don't be so humble. You're not that great. ”

- Golda Meir

“ It's just a simple lifestyle. ”

- Patty Davis

“ Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. ”

- Warren Bennis

“ I think $1 trillion a year by 2000 is modest. ”

- Nicholas Negroponte

“ You take many words to say simple things. ”

- Lillian Hellman

“ Miss Child is never bashful with butter. ”

- Phil Donahue

“ It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat. ”

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

“ I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Possessions, outward success, publicity, LUXURY — to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, "Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus." I said, "That's where I got my information about hell.". ”

- Vance Havner

“ He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Clement Attlee is a modest man who has a good deal to be modest about. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. ”

- Edward P. Tryon

“ Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. ”

- Jules Renard

“ Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. ”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

“ The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ”

- Confucius

“ It well becomes a young man to be modest. ”

- Thomas Brackett Reed

“ I was born modest. Not all over, but in spots. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing. ”

- Paul Theroux
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