#modest

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#achievement #inspirational #misattributed #modesty #recognition

We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of individuals are riches, more humane, and much more joyful. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#art #individuality #life #museums #art

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#fact #greater #in fact #make #modesty

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader. ↗

— Pol Pot

#leader #modest #people #quite #tell

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest. ↗

— Orson Welles

#anything #big #modest #nobody #takes

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#giver #hand #hardest #keep #love

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#hubris #humble #modesty #ego

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#guard #modesty #only #ornament #virtue

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were. ↗

— Russell Baker

#age #back #carries #good #had

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 #built #camping #children #dirt