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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

Science is in low regard.

The only thing championship about Wimbledon is its prestige.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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