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"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
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"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status." »Laurence J. Peter
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"Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"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
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"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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"higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life...
higher emotions, and table manners." »Deanna Troi, _Imzadi_, Star Trek - The Next Generation
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"If you ever meet a higher being, do not worship it; only try to be its friend! Worship is primitiveness and no higher and developed being likes worshipping!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo." »Robert Byrne
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"How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"It did not last: the devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo." »Sir John Collins Squire, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
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"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
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"Human status ought not to depend upon the changing demands of the economic process." »Sir William Temple
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles." »Paul Fussell
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Inventors, pioneers, radicals, visionaries; these have ventured from the lonely and costly camp of minority only to be obstructed by majority-rule concepts that tolerate inferiority, hinder progress, harbor injustice, and pose limits within the decaying status quo." »Jonar Nader
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"Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new." »Galileo Galilei, The Assayer
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"The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who cannot fly." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal." »Eric Lustbader
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"Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees." »Swedish Proverb
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"What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do." »Sanaya Roman
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"The higher your station, the less your liberty." »Sallust
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"There is no religion higher than the truth." »H Hahn Blavatsky
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"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice." »Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher." »Oprah Winfrey
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