Quotes About Modest

I'm not one who likes to be honored, to be honest with you. That's never been who I am.

The ingenious person will above all strive for freedom from pain and annoyance, for tranquility and leisure, and consequently seek a quiet, modest life, as undisturbed as possible, and accordingly, after some acquaintance with so-called human beings, choose seclusion and, if in possession of a great mind, even solitude. For the more somebody has in himself, the less he needs from the outside and the less others can be to him. Therefore, intellectual distinction leads to unsociability.

Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft

The kind of green that doesn't make a big deal about itself.

minimalist clumps.

They have a modest celebrity, sir. There's been a ballad.

Il est notoire que les hommes les plus remarquables sont aussi les plus modestes, les moins soucieux de l'opinion qu'on a d'eux.

The question is: why can't parking lots be modest paradises?

Some worried about appearing to overreact to what so far had been relatively modest market turmoil.

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Youth is pert and positive, Age modest and doubting: So Ears of Corn when young and light, stand bolt upright, but hang their Heads when weighty, full, and ripe.

We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.

I'm not a household name.

I'm no leader; I'm a little humble follower.

I come from very humble beginnings.

I'm probably one of the must humble people you'll ever meet.

I do come from fairly humble beginnings.

I come from a pretty humble family, and I try to be a humble guy.

I'm a humble guy, I'm pretty down to earth.

I come from humble beginnings myself.

I'm a very humble guy.

Growing up it was humble beginnings.

Atiana's very humble and more quiet and just so talented.

I do come from a very humble background.