If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
I believe that we are given strength and help from a power much larger than ourselves. I believe if I humble myself that this power will come through me, and help me create work that is bigger than I would have ever been able to have done alone.
Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
Work is at the core of human dignity.
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Work at being a humble person.
The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.