Top 767 Modest Quotes & Sayings

I had a very modest upbringing.

I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.

I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?

I'm a very modest person.

We lived in a very modest house. My father drove modest cars, we didn't travel, we didn't do any of the things that, were commensurate with the kind of income that he was making. So we got this kind of, double message, which was, y'know, "You work hard and you make as much money as you possibly can, but you don't spend any money." And you see how well I learned that lesson.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

Be merciful, moderate, and modest.

Well, the questioner came from Singapore, which has perhaps the best economic record in the history of developing an economy. And therefore he referred to 15 percent per annum as modest. It's not modest, it's arrogant.

What potent blood hath modest May.

On their own merits modest men are dumb.

I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.

People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling.

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Wear modest, clean clothing. Your clothing doesn't need to be new and [it] should have some fashion of course, but [it] should be clean, modest, and neat. Be dignified in your outward manner and in your inward morality.

I'm much too modest a person.

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

I love Modest Mouse.

Modest women choose a man by the mind, not the eye.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

Jill was tall and slim, like most Moroi. With that figure came a modest chest. Angeline's chest...was not so modest.

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

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

Yeah, well, we were looking for something sort of anonymous. It suggests what it is, but I like that it's modest. I feel like that's an underrated virtue. It's modest and it's kind of anonymous, which I liked, because it reminds me of my own ideas about why music should be played, which is not to be a star. That was never my intention.

He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly. He carried his head on one side, partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modest propitiation of everybody else.

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

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.

Think that you are part of a big construction called science and you are not just a chemist but you are scientist. Be modest but proud. Modest because you know you will not be able to solve other problems because your life is too short. But be proud because you are contributing to it. Some people will bring a small stone to the building and some people will bring a big one but nevertheless no one can take that stone away from you.

Paris is the most modest girl.

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

Ambitions for self may be quite modest. . . . Ambitions for God, however, if they are to be worthy, can never be modest. There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God. How can we ever be content that he should acquire just a little more honour in the world? No. Once we are clear that God is King, then we long to see him crowned with glory and honour, and accorded his true place, which is the supreme place. We become ambitious for the spread of his kingdom and righteousness everywhere.

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.

Modest humility is beauty's crown.

Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!

One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.

A modest woman has good children.

A modest man never talks of himself.

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.

I'll never forget my first fur. It was a modest little stole. Modest? People thought I was wearing anchovies.

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.

Be modest, be humble, be simple.

The blushing beauties of a modest maid.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

A Man who is Shy and Modest, is An Amazing Character, but a Women who is Shy and Modest is Beyond Amazing.

A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

Reality is modest, it won't be seen naked.

We have to be more modest in what we claim.

Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

If you're successful, you must express a modest appearance.

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.

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.

It must be splendid to command millions of people in great national ventures, to lead a hundred thousand to victory in battle. But it seems to me greater still to discover fundamental truths in a very modest room with very modest means - truths that will still be foundations of human knowledge when the memory of these battles is painstakingly preserved only in the archives of the historian.

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous