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.

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.

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.

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

The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.

I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

I love Neil Patrick Harris. I've always been a big fan of his - he was my first TV crush.

Horses have really distinct personalities, and they're magical in many ways.

The Seventies were an interesting time to be a reader or writer of fantasy. Tolkien was the great master. Lin Carter was resurrecting wonders of British and American fantasy from the early twentieth century in his Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series.

People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities.

I know that I sound self-satisfied, and I know that I've got an ego, but I don't have an ego problem.

The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment.

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

Home the blessed word which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven and helps to carry it thither as on an angels wings

Unfortunately, I think there's not enough education about hydration. When I was young, we knew nothing about it. We all know that there's cases of athletes having serious issues because of dehydration and even dying.

The color of truth is gray.

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.

I'm so in love, every time I look at you my soul gets dizzy.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on!