I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.
Christopher HitchensTags: inspirational power belief god religion humility atheism fantasy arrogance respect modesty
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry TrumanTags: inspirational misattributed accomplishment achievement modesty recognition
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
Ronald ReaganTags: inspirational misattributed accomplishment achievement modesty recognition
That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.
Jane AustenTags: modesty irony cloth-ears musicality showing-off
He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind.
Francine PascalTags: funny modesty ed-fargo fearless
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
Vladimir NabokovTags: ego modesty humble hubris
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy you may find in them a harness and a chain.
Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your skin and less of your rainment.
For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.
Some of you say 'It is the north wind who has woven the clothes we wear.'
And I say, 'Ay, it was the north wind, but shame was his loom, and the softening of the sinews was his thread.'
And when his work was done he laughed in the forest.
Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean.
And when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind?
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.
Margery Williams BiancoSaatnya angin berbau asin datang dari laut.
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A modest little person, with much to be modest about.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: modesty
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