Top Modest Quotes
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
William Shakespeare
Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.
Ron Paul
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
George Colman
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
Frank Moore Colby
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Paul Theroux 
William Shakespeare 
Donald Rumsfeld 
Winston Churchill 
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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius 
83% of people like this quote
Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.
Ron Paul
62% of people like this quote
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
Frank Moore Colby
60% of people like this quote
For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.
Franz Beckenbauer
58% of people like this quote
Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.
Sonia Sotomayor
58% of people like this quote
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.
Margaret Thatcher
57% of people like this quote
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
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