Modest Quotes

I’m not shy. I’m modest, but I’m very outgoing.

– Jackie Joyner-Kersee

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

– Confucius

I had a very modest upbringing.

– Balthazar Getty

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.

– Bill Bradley

I’m not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

– Colin Farrell

I’m a very modest person.

– Drew Brees

I try to be very modest with what I do. I’m not a frivolous spender.

– Nancy Lopez

Publicly I’m a very modest dresser, by Hollywood’s standards.

– Mayim Bialik

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

– Jane Harrison

In 1988, federal data showed a modest China-trade surplus of $1.6 billion in Canada’s favour.

– Terry Glavin

I don’t know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal.’

– T. J. Miller

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

– Winston Churchill