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 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 es una de las cualidades más estimables del hombre superior.

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.

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.

Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are 'chosen', the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.

No officer wants to be involved in a justified use of force proven unnecessary after the fact, any more than soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan wanted to make what proved to be the wrong decision in a shoot-don't-shoot situation. Those decisions, even if justified, live with you forever, believe me.

The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.

Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

I'd love to create my own stuff. I've always written stuff, but it would be nice to have my hand a little deeper in the clay, so to speak.

Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.

That's why I hate the outlines and treatments, because all you get are cliches. If you put things down on paper as your plan, it's very hard to get those ideas out of your head and do something better.

As a result of playing Freddy Krueger, I can remember having to look at some medical books, and at some of the disfigurement that fire can cause on people, because they were the source material for some of the prosthetic makeup that I wore. That aided and abetted this fear of death by fire. Which is sort of what happened to Fred Krueger.

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

Discouragement is contagious and is easily transmitted to others.

I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.

There was tremendous emotion. Every shift was so emotional.

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.

Nannies love working in our house because they never know who's gonna walk through the door.

You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.

Le Pen is a petit bourgeois nationalist.

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

It's a strange thought that sometimes God trusts us more than we trust Him. God trusts you - can you trust Him?

Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

Our real interest starts with our neighbors... the future is about regional economies.