Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.

If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.

I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.

We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating.

Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

What I do is not curing cancer or rocket science or lead mining - anything tremendously difficult or world changing. I understand where I am in the cosmic order of things, and I'm OK with it.

I say to myself: 'Come on, Betty, you can't have everything in life. You've been very lucky.'

You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.

How often in life must one be content with what one can get!

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.

Men must know their limitations.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.

True humility is contentment.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.