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“My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.”

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Author:David Rubenstein

“Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.”

Character Form Suffering Too Much Circumstances Peculiar Display Modest Flattery Clouded Great Person Diffidence

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.”

Men Doe Pain Fate Imagine Circumstances Degrees Mere Pessimism Imagine That Modest Units Pessimist Remorseless

Author:Agnes Repplier

“Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.”

Class Middle Grew Circumstances Grew Up Honestly Middle Class Modest Middle Class Family

Author:Larry Gagosian

“I certainly think that the world views the United States as a place to be respected. All over the world our values are respected; who we are, a place that you can come and come from modest circumstances to great things, that's respected.”

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Author:Condoleezza Rice

“People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions.”

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Author:Andrew Zimbalist

“If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live under more modest circumstances. But all those new branches of industry which supply the masses with articles unheard of before, would operate, if at all, on a much smaller scale, and their products would be beyond the reach of the common man.”

Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

“My favorite leader is George Washington. Because he came from very modest circumstances. He wasn't the son of a plantation owner. He was the son of a farmer. He had no formal education, very frustrated. He started writing a diary when he was in his teens, and he wrote things like, "When I grow up, I want to be respected. When I grow up, I want to be successful. When I grow up, I want to know things." What I find fascinating about Washington is he wanted to make something of himself.”

Writing Leader Growing Up Successful Son Circumstances My Favorite Being Successful Farmers Frustrated Modest

Author:Les Wexner

“Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.”

Challenges Rich Grew Circumstances Grew Up Modest

Author:Sonia Sotomayor