#modest

A great man is always willing to be little. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#greatness #humbleness #humility #modesty #size

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#being #continues #earns #example #for example

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

He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#fearless #funny #modesty #funny

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person. ↗

— Horace

#modest person #passes #person #reserved #silent

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones. ↗

— Evan Hunter

#aspirations #award #broadway #i #like

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#also #base #highest #i #i think

His modesty amounts to deformity. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#his #modesty