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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
Nature
You
Yourself
Humble
Will
Be Humble
Way
Some
Higher
Smaller
True
Until
Real
True Way
Greatness
Than
Stoop
Against
Height
Stand
Your
Show
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
Eileen Caddy
Motivational
Future
Good
You
Wonderful
Better
Nothing
Too
Way
Sights
High
Higher
Absolutely
Absolutely Nothing
Allow
Most
Hamper
Up
Expect
Wonderful Things
Any
Happen
Hold
Realize
Your
Now
Right
Things
Set
The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
Emma Goldman
Character
Woman
Human Being
Strong
Will
Sex
Single
Lose
Meet
Ought
Possible
See
Mental
Only
Higher
Comrade
Individuality
Development
Also
Male
Friend
Trait
Human
Being
Cannot
Congenial
Less
Who
Her
We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.
Michelle Obama
Better
Job
Own
Our
Ourselves
Better Job
Higher
Putting
List
Need
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
Norman Mailer
Suffering
Socialism
Higher
Higher Level
Function
Level
Raise
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
George McGovern
Love
Patriotism
Acceptance
Country
Enough
Higher
Highest
Blind
Call
Policy
Official
Plain
Deep
Her
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
Mark Skousen
Success
Failure
World
Build
Pay
Defeat
Society
State
Complete
Totalitarian
Totalitarian State
Totally
Civilized
Civilized Society
Civilized World
Higher
Price
Voluntary
Failing
Greater
Ultimate
Represents
Tax
While
Taxation
Planned
Level
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
Animal
Courage
Moral
Physical
Higher
Instinct
Truer
Bravery
Much
I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
Quincy Jones
You
You Can Do It
Grace
Power
Humility
Kids
Tell
About
Higher
Higher Power
Soon
Terminal
Accept
Because
Always
Forever
Succeed
Create
There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.
Dan Gable
Yourself
Action
Ways
Dream
About
Higher
Write
Higher Levels
Always
Motivating
Just
After
Turn
Levels
I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
Jack Lew
Service
People
World
Think
Higher
Terms
Make
Make A Difference
Calling
Than
Improve
Difference
Which
Public
Public Service
Lives
Career
Chance
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint Augustine
Great
You
First
Wish
Think
Humility
Must
Lofty
Fabric
About
Structure
Construct
Vast
Higher
Begin
Being
Then
Your
Foundation
Deeper
Foundations
Desire
There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
Henry David Thoreau
Will
Free
Power
Own
State
Independent
Recognize
Higher
Individual
Never
Until
Him
Accordingly
Authority
Which
Really
Derived
Enlightened
Treats
Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.
Alexander Haig
Life
Practice
Preach
Negation
Others
Defined
Dare
Rather
Higher
Higher Level
Ideals
Beyond
Make
Go
Affirmation
Than
Capability
Then
Your
Level
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
Charlie Chaplin
Me
Politician
Clown
One Thing
Only
Remain
Higher
Higher Plane
Than
Any
Just
Just One
Just One Thing
Places
Plane
Far
Thing
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Henry Van Dyke
Inspirational
World
Ambition
Down
High
Higher
Lift
Merely
Than
Stoop
Little
Mankind
Stand
Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they flow forth.
Jakob Bohme
Love
God
Love Is
Sense
Virtue
Virtues
Higher
Highest
Principle
Greater
Greatest
God Love
Than
Whence
Being
While
Forth
Certain
Flow
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx
Needs
Society
Ability
Horizon
Only
Higher
Bourgeois
Narrow
His
Left
According
Behind
Banner
Then
Communist
Fully
Each
Right
Phase
Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.
John C. Maxwell
Leadership
Failure
Knowledge
Deficiency
Ranks
Indicator
Higher
Fail
Know-How
Principal
Make
Executives
Than
Lack
Inability
Decision-Making
Decisions
Much
Reasons
Technical
Specific
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music
Knowledge
World
Comprehend
Entrance
Higher
Cannot
Which
Mankind
It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.
Ramana Maharshi
Man
Free
Power
Otherwise
Tool
Everything
Only
Higher
Troubles
Higher Power
He
Accepts
Does
Courts
Which
Them
Position
The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.
Robert Reich
Change
Benefits
Stronger
Unions
Way
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Percent
Structure
Only
Higher
Bottom
Economy
Least
Wage
Requires
Grow
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Huxley
Man
Brainy
Rest
Long
Ladder
Other
Enough
Rung
Only
Somewhat
Higher
Foot
Never
Put
Him
Enable
Hold
Meant
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Tony Robbins
You
Better
Will
Energy
More
Results
Higher
Outstanding
Feel
Talent
Efficient
Energy Level
Produce
Body
Use
Your
Your Body
Level
The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
Adam Grant
Education
Knowledge
You
Higher Education
Mark
About
Higher
Head
Learn
How
Accumulate
Gain
Skills
Your
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
Angela Davis
Education
People
Higher Education
Prison
More
Color
Higher
Institutions
Likely
Than
Poor
Poor People
Much
Found
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