There are at least three moments a month when you are ready to leap across a counter or a front seat to strangle someone: the woman at France Télecom who won't give you the fax ribbons that are there...
Simplicity and humility, not power or status, will bring you joy and happiness.
(n.) State; condition; position of affairs.
The usefulness or otherwise of wealth, status and power to a possessor depends only on a single factor: the nature and strength of his reason.
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of val...
Rank and status do not represent power when surrounded by negativity.
The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of...
your wealth and so called status can not earn real respect for you in the society , if you are characterless (have no purity).
Your wealth or status doesn't make you. Your kindness and character does.
Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there.
As the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.
The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where ordinary life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.