Prestige Quotes

Human dignity is more precious than prestige…

— Claude McKay

“We lawyers are all prestige whores”

— M.E. Thomas

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

— C. Wright Mills

Science is in low regard.

— Leo Kadanoff

“What deserves my loyalty, art or prestige?”

— Anis Shivani

War is the supreme form of prestige.

— Simone Weil

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

— John Ensign

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

— Alfredo Di Stefano

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Charles de Gaulle

The only thing 'championship' about Wimbledon is its prestige.

— John McEnroe

In 'Legend,' I was burning with ego. In 'JJN,' I am playing someone who can die for his prestige.

— Jagapathi Babu

Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.

— Enid Nemy

“It is society as a whole that assigns value and prestige to what people do;”

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

“The pursuit of social success, in the form of prestige or power or both, is the most important obstacle in a competitive…

— Bertrand Russell

“To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.”

— Greg Carlson

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

— Eric Ambler

So most days I don't wear makeup, but I do like this liquid eyeliner from Prestige Cosmetics in Icon that I think…

— Sasha Spielberg

If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that…

— Ted Turner

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

— Anthony Kennedy

I felt that I shouldn't be an actor who just makes movie after movie in a quest for prestige and money.

— Kevin Spacey

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

— Robert D. Hare

We have been distracted into unnatural motivations: money, prestige, power. Listening to the cuckoo is not going to give you money. Listening…

— Rajneesh

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Even during the period when Rome lost much of her ancient prestige, an Indian traveler observed that trade all over the world…

— Paul Einzig

You don't owe the internet your time. Your time is yours, whatever time you give the internet is a gift. The internet…

— Quinn Norton

When I took the decision to join City, Pep Guardiola's call was very important. He called me, spoke to me about the…

— Gabriel Jesus

Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak…

— John Steinbeck

We are aware that in 2005 our efforts to preserve the stability and prestige of the Republic of Bulgaria in the area…

— Anonymous

Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige, or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on…

— Daniel Goleman

Do you know why I married you, Philip?" "Presumably you wanted the financial security and social prestige I could offer." She chuckled…

— Judith McNaught

While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in…

— Sam Harris

A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige…

— Ben Bova

We must not forget either that some of the system's resilience is due to its ability to coopt people with money and…

— Michael Yates

There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of…

— Jean Monnet

Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic…

— Henri Bergson

In a big picture sense, it's more national prestige that we're risking. You know, we are proud of our space program, but…

— Leroy Chiao

Hong Kong never had prestige. It's gone from fishing village to where it is today.

— Alvin Leung

Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige,

— Birdman