If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. — H. G. Wells
Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man. — Antonio Machado
The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek. — Ramakrishna
Short Stoop Quotes
Love that goes upward is worship;
Love that goes outward is affection;
Love that stoops is grace. — Donald Barnhouse
The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. — Doug Larson
Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues. — John Stott
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man. — Booker T. Washington
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. — William Wordsworth
Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth. — Richard Crashaw
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. — Philip Massinger
He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter. — Jose Marti
He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud. — Howard Pyle
Stoop Image Quotes
Stoop So Low Quotes
Oh, the stoop of the Redeemer's amazing love! Let us, henceforth, contend how low we can go side by side with Him, but remember when we have gone to the lowest He descends lower still, so that we can truly feel that the very lowest place is too high for us, because He has gone lower still. — Charles Spurgeon
The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us. — Madeleine L'Engle
Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics. — Hunter S. Thompson
The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it. — Austin O'Malley
He that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there. — Robert Boyle
Sometimes you successful folks can rise up so high reaching for more stuff that you miss knowing God. But you can never stoop low to help somebody and have God miss knowing you — Denver Moore
I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable. — Dolly Parton
Stoop Low Quotes
I think when you're in love with someone, it reveals a lot about yourself. You either rise to your highest highs or you stoop to your lowest lows. — Joy Bryant
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls. — Horace
A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop? — Donald Trump
I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him. — Lawrence James
The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions. — Mark Twain
The bird let loose in Eastern skies,Returning fondly home,Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor fliesWhere idle warblers roam;But high she shoots through air and light,Above all low delay,Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,Nor shadow dims her way. — Thomas Moore
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there. — George Burns
A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curl'd pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon, — for it shines bright, and never changes, but keeps his course truly. — William Shakespeare
A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind. — John Cheever
Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her. — John Milton
Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose, A bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring! The stooping boughs above me, The wandering bee to love me, The fern and moss to creep across, And the elm-tree for our king! — William Allingham
My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure. — 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. — Phillips Brooks
Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ. — John Stott
I am a member of this body. Therefore, sir, I shall neither fawn nor cringe before any party, nor stoop to beg . . . I am here to demand my rights, and to hurl thunderbolts at the men who would dare to cross the threshold of my manhood. — Henry McNeal Turner
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing. — Emma Goldman
Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds. — Benjamin Franklin
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings? — Alexander Pope
The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator. — Sayings
In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave]... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn! — Mengistu Haile Mariam
Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to the sufferance of the extremest of indignities, and sunk himself to the bottom of abjectness, to exalt our condition to the contrary extreme. — Robert Boyle
I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio. — Bonnie Bedelia
An authentically empowered person is humble. This does not mean the false humility of one who stoops to be with those who are below him or her. It is the inclusiveness of one who responds to the beauty of each soul. ... It is the harmlessness of one who treasures, honours and reveres life in all its forms. — Gary Zukav
Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant's stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped from labor asked timidly for dreams of wine and ease. Women asked for dreams of love, and men for dreams of women. — David Berlinski
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. — Ovid
Don't argue for the sake of arguing. Guilty people always want to argue. Don't stoop to their level, make them elevate to yours. — Tony Gaskins
He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him. — Therese of Lisieux
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child. — James Dobson
When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship. — Lew Wallace
To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color. — Harvey Milk
Being missionaries means loving God with all one's heart, even to the point, if necessary, of dying for him... Being missionaries means stooping down to the needs of all, like the Good Samaritan, especially those of the poorest and most destitute people. — Pope Benedict XVI
Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In looking for the keys of paradise, a pope may stoop a little; having found them, he should rise again. — Pope Sixtus V
Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? — Oliver Goldsmith
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world. — George Santayana
The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them...and royally squander their lives with her. — Nikos Kazantzakis
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