#modest

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree. ↗

— William J. Clinton

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Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee. ↗

— Tom Glazer

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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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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

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It well becomes a young man to be modest. ↗

— Plautus

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Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

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Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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