Zhang Xin Quotes

I don't talk about how many cars I'm going to drive, how many houses I've got. I just purely want to be the best I can be.

A small heart hath small desires.

I have no grand scheme.

I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.

I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.

I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.

I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury for luxury sake or in the sense of showing off luxury.

Stay big in your work and small in your life.

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

I've been offered private planes, and I'm like, 'No!'

I am simple and an open book. I don't like ambitious and materialistic people.

I've never had big diamonds; I never had big cars.

I grew up with very little - so material things have never been that important for me.

I don't need a big K Street office or a British secretary or a facade for my ego.

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

Honest work is much better than a mansion.

I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set on greatness, success in business did not satisfy the craving, but that commonly with an increase of wealth, the desire of wealth increased.

I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.

We should not lose ourselves in vainglorious sohemes for changing human nature all over the planet. Rather, we should learn to view ourselves with a sense of proportion and Christian humility before the enormous complexity of the world in which it has been given us to live.

Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.

I think I actually made a very kind gesture out of nowhere; I decided in the middle of that match that for every ace I hit I want to donate money. I just think people should honestly look at themselves before they judge another person. I've never been spoiled. I want a Range Rover very bad, but I refuse to spend the money to buy a Range...The diamonds are borrowed. I won't buy them because I'm too cheap.

We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.