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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #modest
Author describes auto CEO's decisions to drive rather than fly to Washington as "showy penitence". ↗
— Ron Suskind
#education
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ↗
— Max Beerbohm
#between #conceit #delicate #delicate balance #modesty
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. ↗
— Miguel de Cervantes
#among #every #found #greatest #himself
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ↗
— Confucius
#exceeds #his #man #modest #speech
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. ↗
#find #good #his #make #modesty
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ↗
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. ↗
#firm #modest #near #simple #virtue
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. ↗
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#fame #holy #modestly #rank #unworthy
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. ↗
— Franz Grillparzer
#criticism #find #ignores #investigate #man
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
#excellent #follow #indeed #modest #none