#humbling

It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#become #circumstances #continuously #ethic #good

You buy a house and you get it checked out and you feel like you've kind of made your mark here in some way. And then an act of God just comes up the coast and has the potential to just completely wipe it clean. Weather like that is certainly humbling. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#buy #certainly #checked #clean #coast

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#buildings #business #card #could #created

I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#because #bizarre #difficult #doing #getting

My father referred to it as "the finest song ever written for fifteen fingers." He made me play it when I was getting too full of myself and felt I needed humbling. Suffice to say I practice it with fair regularity, sometimes more than once a day. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#arrogance-and-attitude #humbling #pride #attitude

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#feels #help #himself #honor #humbled

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service. ↗

— John Woolman

#fitted #his #humbling #men #providence

We put out press releases to tell people what had happened to me and that I had a large weight gain but a lot of people still didn't know. The ones that didn't know were floored. That was a real humbling experience for me. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#floored #gain #had #happened #humbling

It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#also #being #boss #empowering #great

It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#humbling #know #legacy #you #your