(23 quotes found)
“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
“I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop”
William Shakespeare
“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
“Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.”
Carlos A. Urbizo
“Be wise; Soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise”
Philip Massinger
“Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar”
William Wordsworth
“Such ever was love's way; to rise, it stoops”
Robert Browning
“People tell me not to pay attention to this, but you stoop to a new low when you make it personal. It's a damned shame you had to move back to a community that's so inept.”
Darrell Harvey
“In the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States, you've got to stoop pretty low to do that. You're lower than dirt. I'm not going to tolerate that. There's people in our business that don't belong in our business.”
Chris Scelfo
“When the corn is nearly ripe it bows the head and stoops lower than when it was green. When the people of God are near ripe for heaven, they grow more humble and self-denying...Paul had one foot in heaven when he called himself the chiefest of all sinners and least of saints.”
John Flavel
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