It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town in a very modest home are just the things that I believe have won the election.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town in a very modest home are just the things that I believe have won the election.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

Some are made modest by great praise others insolent.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues but there is no need of parading them for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long and the great charm of all power is modesty.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

The task of a university is the creation of the future so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.