Groveling Quotes

• Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

  Edward Abbey

  Powerful, Knees, Pads

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• We do not find truth groveling through error.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Errors

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• 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 and become like groveling animals who live primarily for survival and propagation. People who exist on that level aren't living; they are "being lived".

  Stephen Covey

  Lying, Unique, Animal

  "The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader".

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• Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

  Tecumseh

  Respect, Native American, People

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• I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.

  Al Yankovic

  Low Self Esteem, Noses, Boots

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• How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Long, Racism

  "Buchanan's syndicated column". July 28, 1993.

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• I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.

  Frank Beddor

  Feelings, Today, Generous

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• 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 find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

  Ben Gibbard

  Jobs, Finding Yourself, Want

  "Death Cab For Cutie's Guide To Seattle: Humble Beginnings" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. May 31, 2011.

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• We should try to learn the nature of [the spirit of revelation]. . . . This is the grand means that the Lord has provided for us, that we may know the light, and not be groveling continually in the dark.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Mean, Dark, Light

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• 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 acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Selfishness, Landscape

  Henry David Thoreau, Michael McCurdy, Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “Walden”, p.88, Shambhala Publications

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• What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

  Lord Byron

  Mind, Clay, Delicacy

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• True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

  Tryon Edwards

  Humility, Self, Spirit

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.605, Ravenio Books

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• 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 left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call “the Chicago way.”

  Thomas Frank

  Thug, Wings, President

  "The Real Chicago Way" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• 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 sensual

  James Russell Lowell

  Self, Sensual, Life Is

  James Russell Lowell (1872). “Among my Books: Contents: Dryden. Witchcraft. Shakespeare once more. New England two centuries ago. Lessing. Rousseau and the Sentimentalists”, p.363

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• 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

  Men, Noble, Impossible

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• Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

  William E. Gladstone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting

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• Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Self Esteem, Connections

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• What I got in Sunday school ... was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and the Christian God preposterous.... The act of worship, as carried on by Christians, seems to me to be debasing rather than ennobling. It involves groveling before a being who, if he really exists, deserves to be denounced instead of respected.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, School, Sunday

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• Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?

  John Milton

  Daughter, Shapes, Cups

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.258

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• I am very good at groveling.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Very Good

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• You got a problem?" he drawled, obviously expecting me to pee my pants before falling to the ground and groveling like an unworthy subject of the Emperor. And that was all it took. A new, screw-you attitude took precedence, trampling my fear under its boots. A highly dangerous approach, I still found it much easier to bear. "Well it all goes back to my childhood...." I began.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Attitude, Fall, Childhood

  Jennifer Rardin (2011). “Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Book One of the Jaz Parks Series”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• I express myself very strongly it`s groveling, I`m trying to show groveling, but all of a sudden I found that I was mocking somebody.

  Donald Trump

  Trying, Found, Shows

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• 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 vision to the man the horizon of whose vision is limited by the bounds of self. But the great things of the world, the great accomplishments of the world, have been achieved by men who had high ideals and who have received great visions. The path is not easy, the climbing is rugged and hard, but the glory at the end is worthwhile.

  Matthew Henson

  Men, Climbing, Self

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• I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a 'natural ally' of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself an emerging superpower, it has become a slavish, groveling satellite state of the US.

  Arundhati Roy

  Thinking, Israel, Allies

  Source: www.soldefter.com

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• 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 a groveling mode, mistakenly believing they have to receive forgiveness from others. Forgiveness offers more than a reprieve granted to us by another person. True forgiveness is a process of giving up the false for the true and allows us to rid our thinking of rigid ideas. We can develop the flexibility to change our mind and our behavior patterns to higher and greater expressions and find new avenues to freedom.

  John Templeton

  Giving Up, Confused, Believe

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