La modestia es una de las cualidades más estimables del hombre superior.

La buena crianza consiste en ocultar cuán gran concepto tenemos de nosotros mismos, y en cuán poco preciamos a nuestro interlocutor.

Confesar sus defectos cuando son reprendidos, es modestia; descubrirlos a los amigos es ingenuidad y confianza; hacer alarde de ellos sin tiempo y sin ser preguntados, es orgullo

Donde hay verdadero valor encuéntrase también verdadera modestia

La modestia prohíbe a veces aquello que no prohíbe la ley

La modestia se parece a las estrellas, que cuanto más buscan la oscuridad en el cielo, más brillan

El hombre superior es modesto en el hablar, pero abundante en el obrar.

La modestia contribuye al progreso, y el engreimiento conduce al atraso.

La modestia es el complemento de la sabiduría.

¡Sé modesto! Es la clase de orgullo que molesta menos.

La modestia es al mérito lo que las sombras a la figura de un cuadro: le da vigor y relieve.

La modestia sola, es capaz de desarmar la envidia, que por lo común hace a los hombres tan injustos.

Nada sienta tan bien en la frente del vencedor como una corona de modestia.

El exceso de modestia es un exceso de orgullo.

La vanidad es el amor propio al descubierto: la modestia es el amor propio que se esconde

La modestia en las capacidades medias es siempre honesta, en los grandes ingenios hipocresía.

No hay nada más engañoso que la falsa modestia. Cuando no es despreocupación por las opiniones, es una manera indirecta de pavonearse

Las personas excepcionales no utilizan trucos como la falsa modestia. No salen a la caza de cumplidos, pero los aceptan donosamente.

Lo que mejor sienta a la juventud es: la modestia, el pudor, el amor, la templanza y la justicia. Tales son las virtudes que deben formar su carácter

La sinceridad no es una flor espontánea, al igual que la modestia.

El verdadero conocimiento de sí mismo haría generalmente muy modesto al individuo.

Dios es modesto, no se atreve a vanagloriarse de haber creado el mundo.

El mejor adorno de una mujer lo constituye el silencio y la modestia.

Sin un gran entusiasmo, sin la decisión de dirigir la mirada hacia abajo, sin la sed de conocer, sin la disposición a despojarse de toda presunción para ser alumno modesto, será imposible realizar ninguna investigación o hacerla bien.

Es más difícil que una persona rica sea modesta a que una persona modesta sea rica.

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble.

If you chase two rabbits, you catch none.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

I'm sorry that 'Fringe' is gone. I really wanted to do more on that show. It was great!

But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

The waste products in Earth's crust are also the human in this expanded, spectral sense. One's garbage doesn't go 'away' - it just goes somewhere else.

Before you can work smart you must work hard.

We have a love affair with the idea of the 'natural,' even though we, as a species, are about as unnatural as you can imagine.

As actors, you always have that moment thinking you've been absolutely terrible or a fraud.

I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am.

Best Buy went and hired a lot of Shanghai staff, but went and westernised them. They only work eight hours a day!

It has always been clear that The Washington Post is a company that is set up for the purpose of protecting the long-term interests of its assets and held together as a holding company.

I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.

I play football once or twice a week. I eat pretty healthy. I'm in fairly good shape most of the time.

My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.

If someone makes you miserable more than they make you happy, then it is time to let them go, no matter how much you love them.

I went to a boys' school, and I didn't realize that most guys join bands because they wanted to get girls. I was not really focused on that the way everybody else was.

Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

My parents love each other. They work through their problems.