Quotes About Status

But when considered from the unique perspective of eternity, fame and popularity aren't nearly as important as loving and being loved; status doesn't mean much when compared to service; and acquiring spiritual knowledge is infinitely more meaningful than acquiring an excess of wealth.

Em nosso país a vulgaridade é um título, a mediocridade um brasão.

It seems to me if an anointed king can be set aside, a serf-born woman can marry a baron's son. As rebellions against God's lawful order go, ours will be a small one. ---Addis de Valence

Humility is the noble choice to forgo your status, deploy your resources or use your influence for the good of others before yourself.

And don't forget this, if a man's a success in New York, he's a success!

Oh I know darling, it's nothing but money in New York.

Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money.

He said it as if 'very rich' was a nationality; as perhaps it is.

The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.

It's a sad culture. People live in a frenzy. They work all the time to make money to buy things to impress other people. They're measured by what they own.

Because of their sacrifice, she had been given the gift of citizenship, a permanent status she had done nothing to earn. They had worked like dogs in a country they were proud of, with the dream of one day belonging. How, exactly, would their removal benefit this great nation of immigrants? It made no sense and seemed unjustly cruel.

With a six-figure income guaranteed for the rest of his life, Lamar could enjoy the twelve-hundred-dollar tailored suits that hung so comfortably from his tall, athletic frame.

For some people, status is what protects them from oblivion. And when they feel their status is slipping away from them, they act fearfully, irrationally.

Many otherwise decent men and women could find no other solution. They are willing to degrade themselves to their basest levels to prevent the traditional laborer from rising in status or, to put it bluntly, from "winning," even though what he wins has been rightfully his from the moment he was born into the human race. I

Everyone I know has a fine big sedan, Mrs. Levy said as she got into the little car. Not you. No. You have to own a kid's car that costs more than a Cadillac and blows my hair all around.

It's hard to accuse someone of not working hard when he's got that earpiece as a constant reminder of how busy he might be. He

Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality

The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.

As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially.