#humble

I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good. ↗

— Mark Viduka

#be humble #because #bred #complex #dad

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#came #crowd #effects #few #first

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#although #appeared #avert #could #countenance

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#condition #force #found #grandeur #humblest

Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#announcing #between #british #days #feeling

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. ↗

— William Cowper

#knowledge #knows #more #much #proud

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#build #field #her #humble #lark

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#admiration #consists #details #feeble #frail

I am very humble, and I am very gracious and very grateful for everything that happens to me and about me and around me. ↗

— Lil Wayne

#am #around #everything #gracious #grateful

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#expressive #freshness #genius #humbles #illiterate