Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think might dispose us to modesty.
Although modesty is natural to man it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular the most practical the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression modesty sex appeal simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town in a very modest home are just the things that I believe have won the election.
I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town in a very modest home are just the things that I believe have won the election.
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
Some are made modest by great praise others insolent.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
You have a good many little gifts and virtues but there is no need of parading them for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long and the great charm of all power is modesty.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
The task of a university is the creation of the future so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
It isn't false modesty when I say this but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.
By gold all good faith has been banished by gold our rights are abused the law itself is influenced by gold and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.