Social Status Quotes

• Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one.

  Dalai Lama

  Wisdom, Religious, Compassion

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• Whether we are rich or poor,
  educated or uneducated,
  whatever our nationality, colour,
  social status or ideology may be,
  the purpose of our lives is to be happy

  Dalai Lama

  Rich Or Poor, Purpose, May

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• We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me is that most people decide who another person is before they have even spoken to them. What's even worse is that these same people decide who someone else is, and don't even know who they are themselves.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Clothes, Race, Car

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• Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.

  Stephanie Dowrick

  Attitude, Important, Talent

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

  Steven Pinker

  Mean, Equality, Differences

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.208, Penguin

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• There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.

  Nelson Mandela

  Humble, Humility, Simple

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.313, Pan Macmillan

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• Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Years, Two

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.1, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Religious, Knowledge, Ego

  "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 2004.

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• The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Yesterday, Society

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• In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level of contentment be determined by outside factors-a new car, fashionable clothes, a prestigious career, social status-the more we relinquish control over our own happiness.

  Paul Brand

  Careers, Clothes, Expectations

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• While women once acquired relationship skills to "hook," "snare," or "catch" a husband who would provide access to economic security and social status, the position of contemporary women has not changed that radically. Much of our success still depends on our attunement to "male culture," our ability to please men, and our readiness to conform to the masculine values of our institutions.

  Harriet Lerner

  Husband, Women, Skills

  Harriet Lerner (2009). “The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• If you're wearing a Bluetooth thing and you've got that thing on your belt, you are working for somebody else. You are not the guy in charge. That's a really good social status indicator.

  Drew Carey

  Guy, Social, Belts

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• It wasn't shared social status or ethnicity that brought Jesus' followers together either, nor was it total agreement on exactly who this Jesus character was - a prophet? The Messiah? The Son of God? No, there is one thing that connected all these dissimilar people together it was a shared sense of need: a hunger, a thirst, a longing. It was the certainty that, when Jesus said He came for the sick, this meant Jesus came for me.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Jesus, Character, Son

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.92, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• For daughters of the new American billionaires of the 19th century, it was the ultimate deal: marriage to a cash-strapped British Aristocrat in return for a title and social status. But money didn't always buy them happiness.

  Daisy Goodwin

  Daughter, Titles, Cash

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• That's what running does to lives. It's not just exercise. It's not just achievement. It's a daily discipline that has nothing to do with speed, weight, social status, sexual orientation, political affiliation, where you live, what car you drive, or whether anyone anywhere loves you. It's about the slow and painful process of being the best you can be.

  Martin Dugard

  Running, Love You, Exercise

  Martin Dugard (2011). “To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)”, p.230, Rodale

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• The problem - at least in the United States - is not that people can't find jobs. The problem is that they're no longer finding jobs that provide them with dignity and decent social status.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Jobs, People, United States

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.

  Kenneth Burke

  Degrees, Different, Kind

  Kenneth Burke (1962). “A grammar of motives, and A rhetoric of motives”

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• Recently, John and I got to go to Selma and perform it on the same bridge that Martin Luther King walked over. Once a landmark of a divided nation, the spirit of this bridge now for all people regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or social status. This bridge was built on hope and welded with compassion. Common

  John Legend

  Kings, Compassion, Race

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• Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. This is the result of an old and excellent religious civilization. This evolution to a higher spiritual state is possible only through discipline and education.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Religious, Civilization

  Swami Vivekananda (1974). “Awakened India”

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• I try not to let the material aspects of different cultures distract me from getting to the essence of the person I'm photographing. Whether it's a man or a woman. Wherever they're from, I try not to let social status or cultural background affect me or affect the person. I strip all those things away to get down to the essence of the human being, the person.

  Mario Sorrenti

  Men, Essence, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Stress, Might Use, Needs

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• As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges, and these will give rise to new problems, which will require ever new solutions. Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

  Rene Dubos

  Struggle, Adventure, Independent

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• Earthly families all look different. And while we do the best we can to create strong traditional families, membership in the family of God is not contingent upon any kind of status - marital status, parental status, financial status, social status, or even the kind of status we post on social media.

  Carole M. Stephens

  Strong, Media, Different

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• The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mean, People, Rose

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• The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Social, Badges, Idle

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