Maintaining Quotations

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. Its a balance.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject.

I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.

Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.

Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.

I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

Maintaining my dignity is so important for me.

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.

Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.

I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.

Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.

Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance.

I credit chiropractic care for maintaining my health to keep up the pace of my career.

This is our festival and on this day we are all Indians. We celebrate the festival by maintaining the spirit of brotherhood.

It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.

Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.

Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race.

There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.

Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process

A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.

Meditation is all about connecting with your soul. Part of maintaining your well-being is taking the time to disconnect from the outside to go within.

It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.

Set yourself up for success from the very beginning and then focus on maintaining that success.

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

A lot of people are concerned with staying physically young...I'm more interested in maintaining my curiosity.

If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.

Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business

Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business. We live and breathe only one thing, which is wanting to connect consumers with great local businesses, and I don't feel we can do that if we don't have effective ways to prevent gaming of the system.

Nothing is necessary for you in maintaining a Christian life, but just to stay by the helm, and put yourself where the power is. Come unto God, unite yourself to God, and the doing power you have is infinite.

The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.

The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness.

Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?

Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world.

The greatest challenge of Leadership maintaining personal conviction in a globalized world.

The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.

Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial.

Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government

Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.

One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct with no preconceived notions. This enabled me to learn and change quickly without having to worry about maintaining any kind of status quo, like some of my bigger competitors.

Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.

Sometimes I have a beard, sometimes I don't, and I'm not very good at maintaining it. I've got an agreement with my life coach and guru that I don't touch it from now on.

I lovingly do everything I can to assist my body in maintaining perfect health

The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.

I needed to save every penny…I needed to be strong, and needed to find some way to secure a future. That’s why I am always conservative. I never forget to maintain stability while advancing, and I never forget to advance while maintaining stability.

The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.

For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.

I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.

Sometimes it's difficult maintaining my friendships, but to me, it's well worth it.

The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.

Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these.

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm.

To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance.

Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

No one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence.

Each of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of all of us. And all of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of each of us.

Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.

Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.

Our efforts must aim at restoring hope, righting wrongs, maintaining commitments, and thus promoting the well-being of individuals and of peoples.

Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.

Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the pros and the cons it has, because we have ten centuries of more good experiences than bad ones.

I don't worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.