Prestige Quotes

Human dignity is more precious than prestige.

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.

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.

There is nothing in existence available without payment. If you want to know yourself, you will have to drop all false identities. They are your investments, they are your power, they are your prestige, they are your religion, they are your qualifications. It is difficult to drop them; it feels like death.

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

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

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

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

Agemates provide the most informative points of reference for comparative efficacy appraisal and verification. Children are, therefore, especially sensitive to their relative standing among the peers with whom they affiliate in activities that determine prestige and popularity

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

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

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

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.

Science is in low regard.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

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

The only thing championship about Wimbledon is its prestige.

All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.

Searching for money, what are you really searching? You are searching power, you are searching strength. Searching for prestige, political authority, what are you searching? You are searching power, strength - and strength is all the time available just by the corner. You are searching in wrong places.

I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.

We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.

The mind always hankers for more and more. If you have money, it hankers for more money; if you have prestige, it hankers for more prestige; if you have knowledge, it hankers for more knowledge. Mind lives in the 'more.'

Bill Clinton is the master politician. In one way, you can say that he was never really about self-enrichment - he was interested in power and self-aggrandizement. But Hillary was all about self-enrichment. She really did, I think, feel a sense of entitlement - she wanted money, she wanted power, she wanted prestige.

The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.

All my films have found distribution and prestige in the Japanese market, so I actually feel my films are very well received and seldom misunderstood.

No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.

In North Carolina, for example, it takes 15 years to move a teacher's salary from $30,000 to $40,000. So it's really difficult to argue that pay doesn't have something to do with the lack of prestige.

I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in terms of wealth and position.

Oftentimes, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.

If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.

He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.

There isn't a class structure in Nigeria, there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

There is nothing the political establishment will not do - no lie that they won't tell, to hold their prestige and power at your expense. And that's what's been happening.

If you look around at the news industry, there are more and more sites clamoring for that kind of writing, whether it's an Ideas section or personal essay series or longform. Readers are hungry for it. It's like prestige TV, though; it's execution-dependent. You have to figure out the right advertiser or sponsor, and you have to deliver, you can't just feed the beast.