“I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop”
William Shakespeare
“The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.”
Phillip Brooks
“You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.”
Edgar A. Guest
“Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar”
William Wordsworth
“Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.”
Carlos A. Urbizo
“Such ever was love's way; to rise, it stoops”
Robert Browning
“Be wise; Soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise”
Philip Massinger
