He who stands on tiptoe
doesn't stand firm.
He who rushes ahead
doesn't go far.
He who tries to shine
dims his own light.
He who defines himself
can't know who he really is.
He who has power over others
can't empower himself.
He who clings to his work
will create nothing that endures.

If you want to accord with the Tao,
just do your job, then let go.

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

MENDEL: Once you’re on your knees, you can’t stand up straight again.

For he that is fallen low did never firmly stand.

Who shuns offence and holds with neither side,
Who dreads the deep and never dares to swim,
Who fears to trip and never tries to run,
May yet in walking stumble.

The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line.

Pretending you're OK when you aren't isn't strength.

I’ve got a problem with my legs, they just can’t walk past a chippy.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

Translation: She stands not firm that giveth ear to prayers.

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

No one in this earthly prison of the body has sufficient strength of his own to press forward with a due degree of watchfulness, and the great majority [of Christians] are kept down with such great weakness that they stagger and halt and even creep on the ground, and so make very slight advances.

He just didn't quite get his leg over.

It is wrong to be inflexible.