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“Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.”

Art Humility Gentle Charm Pretending Modesty Modest Humility And Modesty

“An honest, sensible, humane man, . . . laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make a show, living in modest simplicity . . . is really the most respectable man in society, [and] makes himself and all about him most happy.”

Men Shows Money Rich Honest Simplicity Sensible Modest Humane Respectable Respectable Man

Author:John Adams

“All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.”

Way Needs Writing Children Wanted Ambition Making Money Prose Modest My Ambition Unmarried

Author:Paul Auster

“I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.”

Ifs Men Mean Lost Wealth Half Watches Couple Percent Dollars Billions Budgets Modest Expenditures

Author:Ted Turner

“Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.”

Should Soldier Bombs Modest Boast Maids

Book:The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life

Source: The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life

“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.”

Men Persons Doe Failing Gains Envy Modesty Modest Goodwill Converses

Book:The Guardian: With a Biographical, Historical, and Critical Preface by the Rev. Rob. Lynam

Source: The Guardian: With a Biographical, Historical, and Critical Preface by the Rev. Rob. Lynam

“I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.”

Trying Interesting Following Realistic Being Real Just Being Modest

Author:Girl Talk

“I don't think that I'm modest by any means, but I'm also not an exhibitionist.”

Thinking Mean Modest Exhibitionist

Author:Kristen Bell

“To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.”

Knows Wise Ready Statements Modest Humane Ingenious

Author:Galileo Galilei

“Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.”

Sometimes Effects Enormous Modest

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

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

Men Mind Eye Modest

Author:Publilius Syrus

“If your aims as a donor are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, but you can cause a great deal of damage.”

Ifs Causes Levels Deals Aim Accomplish Awful Damage Reasonable Modest Donors

Author:Irving Kristol

“While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires. Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption, which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns.”

Wealth Path Journey Willing Discipline Track Debt Driven Covered Consumption Modest Thorns Vines

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead”

People Giving Ends Reason Whole Christianity Class Virtue Middle Fit Demand Intellectual Middle Class No Reason Modest His Love Moderates Resignation Adapted

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.”

Ifs Should Art Home Young Kindness Careful Brotherhood Modest Spares Having Strength

Book:THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS

Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS

“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.”

People Thinking Feels Problem Sides Circumstances Baseball Extremes Discussion Dimensions Modest No Problem Mislead

Author:Andrew Zimbalist

“The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.”

Light Government Industry Modest Request

Author:Jeremy Bentham

“People always tell me I'm too modest, and that I'm allowed to tell myself now and then that I'm good at something. Well okay then, the bathroom is very (beautiful) clean right now.”

People Wells Beautiful Right Now Okay Clean Now And Then Modest Bathroom Very Beautiful

Author:Willemijn Verkaik

“Modest. When they meet me, they think I'm going to be outgoing, but I like things low-key. I don't like people to think I'm bragging.”

People Thinking Keys Lows Modest Bragging Outgoing Low Key

Author:Laura Prepon

“The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.”

Men Self He Man Modest Evident Knaves

Book:Complete writings: with variant readings

Source: Complete writings: with variant readings

“The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.”

People Ifs Persons Humility Modesty Modest

Author:E. W. Howe

“I've stuck by being modest, honest and humble, because I think you'll get more appreciated that way and we all want to be appreciated in this world.”

Thinking World Way Want Honest This World Humble Stuck Modest Appreciated

Author:Dwyane Wade

“I'm very modest. I know that baseball is a very humbling game.”

Knows Games Baseball Modest Humbling

Author:David Wright

“It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just as the pleasure principle itself, indeed, under the influence of the external world, changed into the more modest reality principle -, if a man thinks himself happy merely to have escaped unhappiness or to have survived his suffering, and if in general the task of avoiding suffering pushes that of obtaining pleasure into the background.”

“After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.”

Firsts Kind Film Found Expectations Burden Modest

Author:Christian Bale

“There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It's about 20 steps away.”

Sides Steps Far Away Modest

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“We pray for a generation of girls who will display their wit, their intelligence, their modest charm, their integrity, their loveliness rather than their bodies and their sexual possibilities.”

Body Girl Generations Possibility Praying Integrity Wit Charm Display Modest Loveliness

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“The spectator and historian of [Belisarius's] exploits has observed, that amidst the perils of war, he was daring without rashness, prudent without fear, slow or rapid according to the exigencies of the moment; that in the deepest distress he was animated by real or apparent hope, but that he was modest and humble in the most prosperous fortune.”

War Real Moments Fortune Humble Historian Daring Distress Modest Rapids Spectators Peril Prosperous Exploits Animated Prudent Rashness

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“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

“I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.”

Way Terrible Paint Photographer Crap Modest

Author:Chantal Joffe

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

Reality Naked Modest

Book:War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not

Source: War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not

“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.”

Ifs World Should May Littles Long Self Clear Kings Ambition Glory Spread Worthy Supreme Kingdoms Acquire Righteousness Cherish Honour Ambitious Modest Inappropriate

Author:John Stott

“Most of the people in the upper income brackets are not rich and do not have wealth sheltered offshore. They are typically working people who have finally reached their peak earning years after many years of far more modest incomes-and now see much of what they have worked for siphoned off by politicians, to the accompaniment of lofty rhetoric.”

People Years Wealth Rich Politician Income Rhetoric Modest Earning Lofty Brackets Offshore

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.”

Pride Proud Modesty Modest National Pride

Author:Ian Hislop

“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.”

Wells Economy Records Economic Developing Arrogant Modest Singapore

Author:Charlie Munger

“Rarely do outside of school remedies work their way into the fabric of the schools or into the teachers lives, and more rarely into the classrooms. Therefore they only offer a modest hope of influencing the basic culture of the school”

Way School Culture Teacher Influence Offers Classroom Remedy Fabric Modest

Author:Roland Barthes

“I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.”

Song Order Evening Dawn Funeral Modest Ceremony

Author:Giuseppe Verdi

“Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.”

Beautiful Talent Expression Genius Setting Settings Diamond Modest Talent And Genius

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.”

Kings Modest Propositions Henry Viii Henry V

Author:David Starkey

“The annoying thing about being modest is that you can't brag about it.”

Annoying Modest Brag Annoying Things

Author:Gene Brown

“He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected; he was obeyed by carnal men. As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity.”

“Confidence and courage are special skills to the art ... Within the four walls of his study, the artist should be modest, work diligently and conscientiously. While for the public, he'll show himself audacious, yes even into cheerful boldness. And so a new public's darling has arisen.”

Should Art Shows Artist Study Four Special Wall Skills Modest Cheerful Boldness Darling Audacious Four Walls Confidence And Courage

Author:Robert Schumann

“It's difficult to make the interesting feature films that don't fit easily into a genre, even on modest budgets. It's tough to get those films made, but I'd rather try to get those films made than compromise too much.”

Trying Made Film Difficult Interesting Too Much Fit Tough Compromise Genre Budgets Features Modest

Author:Julian Jarrold

“This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class.”

People Country Enough Moments Home Fighting Class Break Issues Middle Raises Secure Saving Our Time Middle Class Retirement Stakes Modest Defining Savings Make Or Break

Author:Barack Obama

“I'm usually the first guy to propose a change because I'm continuing my process. We're in a context, in this business, a context in which most screenplays work on a very modest level of achievement, in that a lot of them aren't really written by what you would call writers.”

Firsts Guy Process Levels Written Achievement Continuing Modest Propose Screenplays

Author:William Monahan

“All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.”

Trying I Can Dues Dancer Modest

Author:Al Pacino

“We do not know anything - this is the first. Therefore, we should be very modest - this is the second. Not to claim that we do know when we do not - this is the third. That's the kind of attitude I'd like to popularize. There is little hope for success.”

Knows Should Firsts Kind Littles Attitude Thirds Claims Modest

Author:Karl Popper

“I'm living in a very modest place. I have a room over-looking beautiful Claridge's Hotel. I thought it was better than paying Claridge's prices and overlooking the dump I'm living in.”

Beautiful Rooms Hotel Modest Dump Overlooking Looking Beautiful

Author:Jack Benny

“The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost interest in his work. He got caught in a storm with a bunch of samples in his arms.”

Made Lost Interest Arms Mets Fellows Fortune Caught Storm Bunch Unusual Lightning Modest Salesman Sample

Author:Shelley Berman

“My trick - is there one? Well, perhaps a bitter youth with many changes of occupation, with the necessity of trying everything from poetry to berry picking. These difficult early years probably constitute the sources of my modest photographic activity.”

Trying Years Wells Difficult Youth Source Activity Tricks Bitter Occupation Modest Berries Trying Everything

Author:Martin Munkacsi

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