| "Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status." »Lao Tzu |
| "Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established." »Norman Vincent Peale |
| "Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people'--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations." »Peter Drucker |
| "Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo." »Robert Byrne |
| "Human status ought not to depend upon the changing demands of the economic process." »Sir William Temple |
| "Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks." »Carol Botwin |
| "That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life." »Paul Tournier |
| "I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo your time has come -- and gone. It's time for change in America." »William Jefferson Clinton |
| "I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked." »Harold Bloom |
| "We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country." »Paul Weyrich |
| "It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life." »Paul Tournier |
| "What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do." »Sanaya Roman |
| "There is no religion higher than the truth." »H Hahn Blavatsky |
| "Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees." »Swedish Proverb |
| "The higher your station, the less your liberty." »Sallust |
| "Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice." »Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| "No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast." »W. S. Gilbert |
| "Music is a higher revelation than philosophy." »Ludwig van Beethoven |
| "Faith is a higher faculty than reason." »Henry Christopher Bailey |
| "Many things have fallen only to rise higher." »Seneca |
| "The higher the buildings, the lower the morals." »Noel Coward |
| "There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher." »Victor Hugo |
| "Nurture your mind with great thoughts, For you will never go any higher that you think..." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." »William Faulkner |
| "Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself." »Henry Ward Beecher |
| "The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level." »Norman Mailer |
| "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." »Conan Doyle |
| "Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there." »Albert Einstein |
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