A Quote by Mason Cooley
When a modest man praises himself, people listen.
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.
Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.
When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.
A modest man never talks of himself.
The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.
At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.
How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.
A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!
A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself.
The fire has its flame and praises God.
The wind blows the flame and praises God.
In the voice we hear the word which praises God.
And the word, when heard, praises God.
So all of creation is a song of praise to God.
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.
I will sing their praises, I'll sing Donald's [Trump] praises and Marco's [Rubio] praises and everybody else's praises. But I'm going to keep the focus on substance and records. And there's a reason why they scream "Liar." Because when you point to their own records, their own voting records, their own words, they don't like their records because their records are inconsistent with what they're running on.
The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.
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