A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
Edgar Watson Howe

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

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Jean de la Bruyere

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
Paul Auster

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.
Sonia Sotomayor

Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.
Clyde Tombaugh

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
Carlisle Floyd

And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.
Florenz Ziegfeld

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.
Robert B. Laughlin

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
Lakhdar Brahimi

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
Abraham Cahan

But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
Ian Hamilton Finlay

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.
Sextus Propertius

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Logan P. Smith

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
Augustus Hare

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.
Franz Beckenbauer

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
Paul Theroux

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.
Chely Wright

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.
Emeril Lagasse

I had a very modest upbringing.
Balthazar Getty