Modest Quotes
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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
Ralph W. Sockman
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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
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The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
Confucius
Subject: Humility QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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When you have a crisis, the crisis itself becomes one of your biggest asset if that crisis is bad enough. Everyone get very modest and humble and listens. If you need do rough things, you do rough things.
Carl-Henric Svanberg
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[on Rita Hayworth] She was so sweet and hard-working. She asked me to watch her work out her dance routines and go over her lines with her. I`d tell her little things and she`d whisper, "Don`t tell the director, please." She was so modest and affectionate...
Edward Horton
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
Zhang Ziyi
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I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I had needed a size thirty-eight bra instead of a modest thirty-four.
Evelyn Keyes
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[Asked if Star Wars (1977) had made him a fortune]: Yes, blessed be "Star Wars". But two-thirds of that went to the Inland Revenue and a sizable sum on VAT. No complaints. Let me leave it by saying I can live for the rest of my life in the reasonably mode...
Alec Guinness
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For Western women, it`s much easier to be yourself. If you want to do something, you just go and do it. In an Asian context, women are still much more modest and conservative. I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women t...
Zhang Ziyi
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I`ve always been content just to be working and making a modest living for my wife and child.
Abe Vigoda
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[on Simone Signoret] I suppose it is fair to say that I fell hopelessly in love with Simone Signoret the very first time I clapped eyes on her in a modest Ealing film called Against the Wind (1948). I placed her then on the very peak of her profession and...
Dirk Bogarde
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We hope this added incentive will boost the donations. Our goal is to raise the greatest amount of money possible for this organization, so we have priced our Prime Rib Buffet at a very modest price. Hopefully everyone will leave the buffet happy with a g...
Ron Oliver
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We don`t like rate increases as much as anyone, but we think 8.6 percent is as modest as possible.
Anthony Burton
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Using bad language while promising to restore dignity to the White House is a contradiction that will hurt him in a tiny, modest way.
Ahmad Zeidabady
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To test a modest man`s modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
Alex Cunningham
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To not be modest about it, you`ll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I`ve worked with have done their best work by far with me.
David Bowie
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Those levels haven`t changed since 1990 despite the fact that rents have risen over 15 years, ... Over three years, these changes will provide $42 million in rent relief for low-and modest-income seniors.
Carole Taylor
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This modest rise in July may reflect the firm July payroll rather than being a signal for August.
Anthony Shaftesbury
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This is trying to assure that self-pay patients, particularly of modest or lesser means, aren`t going to be disadvantaged because they don`t have insurance companies to represent them,
Mike Green
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This is going to be a profitable transaction, ... This one we could afford on a modest budget.
Robert Wright
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This is a modest increase in our ticket price in order for us to continue to move forward our basketball programs. One of our short term goals is to begin a feasibility study for a new basketball practice facility for both our men`s and women`s basketball...
Barbara Ellis
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This interim government needs an infusion of a modest amount of capital in days, not weeks, not months,
Arthur Gordon
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This budget is, in my view, a good budget. It does begin to exercise some fiscal discipline, but it is a modest exercise of fiscal discipline.
Allison Comito
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The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.
AJ Ullmann
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The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.
AJ Ullmann
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The evidence is fairly convincing that smaller schools are more effective. At the district level there are some modest benefits of having a larger organization, but those are more than offset by the deficits of larger schools.
Paul Peterson
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The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.
Alison O`Connor
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
Amy Beaner
Subject: Art QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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suggest that most children can extend their sleep and gain demonstrable benefits from even modest sleep extension.
Barbara Platt
