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Quotes About Modest

Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.
~ Michael Moore
Asta-i biserica - un loc cu o înf??iÈ™are modest?, dar cu o vorbire profund?.
~ Ravi Zacharias
The task of prophetic imagination is to cut through the numbness, to penetrate the self-deception, so that the God of endings is confessed as Lord. Notice that I suggest for the prophet in a really numbed situation a quite elemental and modest task.
~ Walter Brueggemann
DVD in the apartment's modest library, most
~ Daniel Silva
Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil, serene amidst alarms; Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
~ James Beattie
Give me a little peace. A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought.
~ James Goldman
The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night. They do not keep awake 'till three, Nor read erotic poetry. They never sanction the impure, Nor recognize an overture. They shrink from powders and from paints... So far I've had no complaints.
~ Dorothy Parker
Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest.
~ Gary Weiss
A única pessoa que muda de verdade a face do planeta é aquele que lavra modestamente o seu terreno.
~ Ramón Gómez de la Serna
Most men of means, whether their holdings were modest or substantial, felt they could not afford the time, nor did they wish to give up the assistance of their own sons or apprentices.
~ Ray Raphael
In regular life, I'm somebody pretty simple, pretty calm.
~ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
I'm not the loudest guy on the tour for sure. I'm more calm, I think my private too.
~ Kei Nishikori
I'm not really much of a celebrating type.
~ Xander Schauffele
I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
~ Wyclef Jean
I was very cheap - that's the way I'd always worked.
~ Pete Waterman
You are a sick, sick man," I told him. "Thank you," Ben replied, looking modest.
~ Patricia Briggs
Honestly, I'm not an extravagant person, I don't spend a lot of money.
~ Liam Hemsworth
Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
~ William J. Clinton
I've always been down-to-earth about money.
~ Chynna Phillips
My mother dressed me always very conservatively.
~ Selma Blair
The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.
~ William Shakespeare
The lot—and often indeed the aim—of most professional bourgeois was to vegetate in modest, undemanding, but comfortable circumstances, finding wives of similar background and being succeeded in their office or calling by their children and grandchildren
~ William Doyle
Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
~ William J. Clinton
God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells.
~ Vincent de Paul