Best Modest Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 12

Source: The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)

“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.”

People Humans Mean Stills Seems Memories Rooms Millions Greater Victory Battle Thousand Hundred Foundation Fundamentals Command Historian Modest Venture Splendid Archives Human Knowledge

Author:Ludwig Boltzmann

“A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism, and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist.”

Persons Risk Becoming Curiosity Financial Reputation Journalist Indifference Skepticism Modest Requirements

Author:Louis Menand

“True gastronomy is making the most of what is available, however modest.”

Available Modest

Book:Everything tastes better outdoors

Source: Everything tastes better outdoors

“The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.”

Found My Own Doors Library Available Modest My Own Life Public Library

Author:Herman Wouk

“Unlike boxers-or any professional athlete for that matter-rowers have little motivation to do it longer than necessary. With a modest amount of self-realization, you'll know when you have acquired the nebulous gifts that rowing has to offer, whether it's courage or a strengthened soul or a powerful body. Once you have it, drop back ten yards and punt. Someone new will pick up the ball and run with it.”

Knows Littles Soul Self Matter Body Running Motivation Powerful Amount Offers Ten Picks Balls Athlete Self Realization Realization Modest Yards Boxers Rowing Professional Athlete

Author:Brad Alan Lewis

“To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.”

World Next Simple Quiet Simplicity Best Things Not Sure Modest Being Quiet

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“To win countrywide victory is only the first step in a long march of ten thousand li.... The Chinese revolution is great, but the road after the revolution will be longer, the work greater and more arduous. This must be made clear now in the Party. The comrades must be helped to remain modest, prudent and free from arrogance and rashness in their style of work. The comrades must be helped to preserve the style of plain living and hard struggle.”

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.”

People Thinking Way Want Writing Trying Mind Book Causes Leadership Greater Satisfaction Modest Writing A Book

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we thought would dis-intermediate traditional sellers gave more people the tools to be sellers. It also changed the balance of power between sellers and buyers.”

People World Way Mind Easy Leadership Technology Changed Balance Tools Traditional Modest Sellers Buyers Balance Of Power

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.”

Born Accomplished Modest

Book:Highlighted in Yellow: A Short Course In Living Wisely And Choosing Well

Source: Highlighted in Yellow: A Short Course In Living Wisely And Choosing Well

“Therefore: In dwelling, choose modest quarters, in thinking, value stillness, in dealing with others, be kind, in choosing words, be sincere, in leading, be just, in working, be competent, in acting, choose the correct timing. Follow these words and there will be no error.”

Thinking Kind Values Acting Errors Sincere Be Kind Quarters Stillness Timing Modest Dwelling Competent

Author:Laozi

“It's never been integral to the story that I take my clothes off. I've always had clauses in my contracts saying no nudity and no body doubles... I admire actresses who can do it without feeling exploited. As long as it's their own free will, I think it's great. It's not a moral judgement, I've just never felt comfortable doing it - I'm too modest.”

“I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.”

Humans Practice Amount Ocean Concerned Scales Destructive Fishing Consumption Modest Wildlife Large Scale

Author:Sylvia Earle

“Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind in existence. Compared with our infallible democracies, our infallible medical councils, our infallible astronomers, our infallible judges, and our infallible parliaments, the Pope is on his knees in the dust confessing his ignorance before the throne of God, asking only that as to certain historical matters on which he has clearly more sources of information open to him than anyone else his decision shall be taken as final.”

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.”

Persons Wall Modesty Modest Slam

Author:Maya Angelou

“What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.”