A Quote by Franz Grillparzer
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.
The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.
You can tell by the applause: There's perfunctory applause, there's light applause, and then there's real applause. When it's right, applause sounds like vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce.
Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness.
Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.
There is an initial modesty in Liberalism. Liberalism was not originally a doctrine of "man is the king." No, it was a very modest attempt to build a space where people could live together without slaughtering one another.
Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts. Someone has said, "Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man."
Do you know there is actually a blood test out there now to find out if your kid is gay or not? Yeah, it's an HIV test.
For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For
whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.
Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.
Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested.
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
So you've got to test the envelope, find out what are your abilities and if you falter, pick yourself up and test it again. Otherwise, what is it all about, you know?
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