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)