A Quote by Amy Chua

Be modest, be humble, be simple.

Amy Chua

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Amy Chua
American - Educator
Born: October 26, 1962

Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.

Amy Chua

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Abraham Cahan

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more modest, more humble, more appreciative. The off the field tragedies put things in better perspective, but life happens to everybody, and I think we all just try to do the best we can.

Brett Favre

Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.

James C. Collins

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

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.

David Heyman

. . . God is pleased to communicate himself to the simple and humble and to use the smallest and lowliest to make them great and exalted. In a word, it is He Himself who has called and approved them and even inspired their humble manner of living.

Vincent de Paul

Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

Nancy Gibbs

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Confucius

Your humble correspondent realizes that many readers are left-wing, anti-string-theory fighters. So they probably smoke marijuana and this is my modest attempt to help them.

Lubos Motl

I've stuck by being modest, honest and humble, because I think you'll get more appreciated that way and we all want to be appreciated in this world.

Dwyane Wade

A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.

Michael Ignatieff

I do feel it's hard to be modest and humble and egoless when people are telling you you are so great and wanting to give you prizes and energy. I'm trying hard not to be an awful, narcissistic human being.