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

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

Man, Speech, His, Superior, Actions

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

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

Man, Speech, His, Superior, Actions

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. - Confucius

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. Confucius

Simple, Virtue, Enduring, Firm, Near

Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility. Maya Angelou

Fire, Humility, Think, You, Hell, Run

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations. Paul Rand

Good, Simplicity, Expectations, Goal

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Soul, People, Privacy, Sarcasm, Last

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

Respect, Self, Thinking, Humility, True

A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous. Geoff Mulgan

Live, Self-Love, World, Want, Everyone

I'm intrigued by people who make their modest living doing good things for others. Teachers, nonprofit workers, librarians... those are the heroes in our society. George Pelecanos

Good, People, Society, Good Things

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. - William Shakespeare

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. William Shakespeare

Wise, Doubt, Beacon

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane. Jane Harrison

Brave, Patient, Honorable, Manly, Either

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing. Pope Francis

Life, Car, Me, Spiritual, People, Way

I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot. John Glenn

Good, Loved, Flying, Pilot, Fact, Found

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. Alice Meynell

Life, Heart, Red, Color, True, Body

My mother was a very natural woman. She never spoiled herself, never wore make-up, and wore modest jewellery, but she always had a few special items for when she wanted to feel like a lady. One of those special items - and I remember it because it seemed so elegant - was her Guerlain powder. Angelina Jolie

Mother, Woman, Feel, Remember, Special

The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion. John Burroughs

Bird, Wise, Growth, Great, Look, Color

I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able help. Mohamed Al-Fayed

Hope, Food, People, Help, Warm, Comfort

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. Margaret Thatcher

Home, Election, Me, Small, Believe, Just

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. John Ruskin

Heart, Person, Manners, Want, Real, Kind

How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan. Italo Calvino

Short, Energy, Trying, Rules, Plan, Open

I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars. Ted Turner

Man, Rest, You, Lost, Budget, Wealth

Boys are quite often whimsical. Whereas girls are modest by nature and know their responsibilities very well. Their weapons are service, sacrifice, and love, by which they conquer over the males. Munshi Premchand

Love, Nature, Service, Sacrifice, Know

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

Simple, Humble, Anger, Control, Your

Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine. Jonathan Nolan

Wisdom, Future, Home, Time, Travel, Look

My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around. Brooklyn Decker

Bike, Time, Children, Parents, Riding

It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin - glory, love, whatever. John Updike

Love, Good, Daily, Expectations, Reward

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