Modest Quotes

“Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.”

“The good times are killing me”

“What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.”

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

“- Why you?- (...) I’m the best.- Modest of you.- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.”

“With a modest amount of looks and talent and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into more than half a century of good fortune.”

“It's like the old question, "Do you lock your house to keep people out, or to protect what's inside?" Should a person act modestly and dress modestly in order to prevent intrusion from the outside, undesirable things from happening, or to preserve and maintain what is inside: the delicate and sensitive ability to have and maintain an intimate relationship.”

“The lesson here is that high expectations can be counter-productive. We probably can do more to affect the quality of our lives by controlling our expectations than we can by doing virtually anything else. The blessing of modest expectations is that they leave room for many experiences to be a pleasant surprise, a hedonic plus. The challenge is to find a way to keep expectations modest, even as actual experiences keep getting better.”

“Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.”

“I was born modest not all over but in spots.”