Sentence examples for better to be modest from inspiring English sources

Better to be modest and realistic than to lust after unattainable dreams.

He wasn't trying to be modest.

We're supposed to be modest.

Those payments were expected to be modest.

You have to be modest as well.

"I was trying to be modest".

You can afford to be modest.

Stakes tend to be modest.

It's likely to be modest.

Try to be modest.

Opera as this kind of drama works better, to be sure, in the modest-size theaters common in Europe.