Quotes About Modest

Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Christian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do in a modest way, and with a disposition of indescribable tenderness.

Good photography is unpretentious.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

I'm trying to be really coy, and I'm not sure if I'm doing a good job.

The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.

History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.

Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy.

I'm brilliant as well as skilled, " he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.

O, heart! How long will you search for perfection in schools? How long will you try to perfect philosophy, geometry and all its rules? Every thought which is no remembrance of God is an evil inspiration, Be modest before God! How long these evil thoughts? (Leave them to fools!)

Never despise meger beginings!

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. But brilliant young ladies, a little blinded by their own effulgence, are apt to forget that the modest satellite drowned in their light is still performing its own revolutions and generating heat at its own rate.

It turned out that the Germans' modest and conscientious reforms were only a starting point for more rapacious regimes to come.

Origins should never be a barrier to success. A modest start in life can be a help more than a hindrance.

Origins should never be a barrier to success. A modest start in life can be a help more than a hindrance. If you're examining successful people, look at their mother and father, study what they did, for clues about energy and motivation.

True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.

You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.

I think I'm plain. I'm normal. I'm plain. I try not to stand out. I don't wear colors.

I'm actually a pretty clean-cut person.

I mean, really, compared to a senior civil servant, I'm very modestly paid!

I think I am a conservative, not-so-cool kind of guy.

I think I'm a really sweet guy, kind of shy and nice and stuff.

I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'

Our principal claim here is that patients and doctors should be free to make their own agreements about that right. If patients want to waive the right to sue, they should be allowed to do exactly that. This increase in freedom is likely to help doctors and patients alike, and to make a valuable, even if modest, contribution to the health care problem.