Modest

Famous quotes containing the word modest:

    Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
    Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747)

    He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.
    Winston Churchill (1874–1965)