Groveling Quotes

26 quotes by 26 authors

What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel… — Benjamin Carson
What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in… — Lord Byron
Do what comes into your life and do it well... Be polite without groveling. If you are ever afraid of anything, do not deny it,… — Anna Lee
Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful. — Edward Abbey
Humility, or poverty of spirit, is not a matter of thinking low thoughts about ourselves. It is not a matter of groveling in the dust.… — John W. Miller
Many of us understand giving, but some of us may still be confused about the meaning of forgiveness. Some people may go through life in… — John Templeton
How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up? — Pat Buchanan
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment. — Demosthenes
I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you… — Ben Gibbard
First, draw off your hearts, because Jesus Christ, the Head, is risen and ascended upon high, and there sits at the right hand of His… — Christopher Love
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and… — James Russell Lowell
There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there can be no… — Matthew Henson
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of… — Henry David Thoreau
Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness… — Stephen Covey
But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or… — John Steinbeck
I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime. — Al Yankovic
Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem. — Amy Dickinson
When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a… — Thomas Frank
I am very good at groveling. — Megan Whalen Turner
We do not find truth groveling through error. — Thomas S. Monson

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