Maintaining Quotes

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.

Through my life, [there have been] a lot of devils and a lot of situations, so I'm just goin' hard, maintaining, regardless of what people got to say about Ace Hood.

I question and soul-search constantly into myself to be as certain as I can that I am fulfilling the true meaning of my work, that I am maintaining my sense of purpose, that I am holding fast to my ideals, that I am guiding my people in the right direction.

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

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

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

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

I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

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.

Atheists themselves used to be very comfortable in maintaining that the universe is eternal and uncaused. The problem is that they can no longer hold that position because modern evidence that the universe started with the Big Bang. So they can't legitimately object when I make the same claim about God - he is eternal and he is uncaused.

Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The family is the foundation for love and for maintaining spirituality

Shaucha, or living purely, involves maintaining a cleanliness in body, mind, and environment so that we can experience ourselves at a higher resolution.

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

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.

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

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.

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

In an apostolic network the person in charge of maintaining the DNA of the network is the lead apostle, who consults with those he or she chooses, and no one else.

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

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.

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.

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.

Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.

Paperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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