Unpretentiousness Quotes

A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.

Anyone who knows anything about me should know by now I am certainly not exactly a good politician. I am also willing to admit to you now that I never went to any classes that had anything to do political science.

This office is smaller than the last one I had. I'm not trying to impress people. I want to be close to them.

I never had a highfalutin' view of what I write.

I'm clearly not an international man of mystery.

I don't think about my fame very much.

Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don't care about being cool.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'

I don't want to have to put on that "thing" - I call it "the thing" when I have to do my hair, put on the lashes, get dressed up. When I go out for potato chips, I just want to go out looking like myself, which means you will see bad pictures of me. There probably are some out there right now, but it's just part of the life.

Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.

I relate more to 90 percent of America because I look like 'em, act like 'em. I'm not above anybody; I put my pants on the same way. Some guys try to live up to their persona. I'm just me.

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

One of the things I love about Helena Bonham Carter is that she is ravishing, but she does as much as she can to play it down and look funny. She doesn't let her looks get in the way. I hugely respect that.

I'm not starry eyed, and I'm not money crazy.

What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

As beautiful as Oklahoma is, it doesn't have big lights and none of that. But that's fine... I'm a low-maintenance, low-key, chill guy.

The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but because he is always himself. We have seen him pay his own hotel bill and heard that Francis called Buenos Aires for a pair of ordinary black shoes, like John XXIII, who preferred stout peasant shoes to the traditional papal footwear.

I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.

I still don't really think about acting that much. I just do it.

I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

The more simple, the more republican we are in our manners, the more rational dignity we shall acquire.

I think it's because I'm real. Inside and outside of the ring, what you see is what you get. I'm CM Punk. I'm not trying to be something I'm not. I'm not trying to lie to the people or be fake. I'm not trying to be some crazy, outlandish character. I'm real and they appreciate that. Everything I say, it comes from the heart. It's all real.

Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.