#stoop

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

#cool #die #fire #high-spirited #indeed

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

#be humble #greatness #height #higher #humble

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons. ↗

— John Bright

#commons #every #fact #folly #house

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. ↗

— Philip Massinger

#high #rise #soar #stoop #too

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

#down #else #getting #getting old #know

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#nothing #pick #remember #stoop #up

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. ↗