Prestige Quotes

Prestige Quote of the day

Human dignity is more precious than prestige.

What could you do to a man who owns nothing? You can't starve a fasting man, you can't steal from someone who has no money, you can't ruin someone who hates prestige.

Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.

I can’t think of any negative [aspects of working in the wrestling industry]. The positive are the money, the comradery, the prestige, the notoriety. A lot of pluses.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige

Associating with the wise and the knowledgeable people adds to the prestige of a person.

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.

What did I want with prestige? The British Open paid the winner $600 in American money. A man would have to be two hundred years old at that rate to retire from golf.

People talk about the prestige of beating records but prestige never bought me dinner in a restaurant. It's winning games that does that.

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing

Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness.

Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.

Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.

Real leadership is not about prestige, power, or status. It is about responsibility.

For all its prestige, its fabulous views, its indoor pool, and its lovely garden, 24 Sussex is more like an old hotel than a modern home.

People said if [I] was at a party, it gave it prestige. I would let people know I'd arrived by letting off my flash... You could feel the temperature rise right away.

The Oscar prestige was fine, but I worked more before I was nominated.

Prestige and premium will also play an important role in the future. But some people define these values differently today.

It's no wonder there is a mad scramble for victim status on many campuses today. It confers authority and prestige.

A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.

It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige.

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of the coercive status system step by step.

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.

I have a cosmetics line in Walgreens. It's exclusively at Walgreens. It's called Circa and it's basically prestige cosmetics that are at drug-store prices.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

The only thing championship about Wimbledon is its prestige.

The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.

Science is in low regard.

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.