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The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
The annoying thing about being modest is that you can't brag about it.
I'm not too modest of a person. I've got a pretty blue sense of humor.
I am rather proud of my modest contribution to bringing democracy home.
All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
True gastronomy is making the most of what is available, however modest.
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale.
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
I don't think that I'm modest by any means, but I'm also not an exhibitionist.
I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
I have had some amazing experiences as a musician - even with my modest skills.
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
Unlike Hezbollah, Israel's more modest aim is to survive, and that it has done.
You are a sick, sick man,” I told him. “Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.
Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.
It is hard to be modest at times like these so I won't even try...you are all shite!
Before the '80s, no girl would ask to click a photograph. That was modest and demure.
I would love to have my own fashion line. I love modest clothing that's still flirty.
Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.
The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
I am one of the most famous people in Russia, which is maybe not modest, but it's true.
Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
I come from an extremely modest background. So now I have way more than what I'm used to.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.
Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.
In 1988, federal data showed a modest China-trade surplus of $1.6 billion in Canada's favour.
Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Give me a little peace. A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought.
I was very uneasy about going into cosmology because the experimental observations were so modest.
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
I'm on Twitter, and I have over 10,000 followers. Which is pretty modest compared to Charlie Sheen.
You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.
'Scandal,' I sort of experienced the ascent and the transition from a modest start to a full-blown hit.
I think Putin will have to find a way to signal, even if it's a modest signal, an openness to dialogue.
Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.
You may be modest and un-egotistical in your life; I'm quite ordinary. But I play big egotistical parts.
I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.
The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.