Modest Quotes

A superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.

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.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

But perhaps this is the greatest charm of life: it puts a gold-embroidered veil of lovely potentialities over itself, promising, resisting, modest, mocking, sympathetic, seductive. Yes, life is a woman!

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!

Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.

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

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

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.