Prestige Quotes

161 Prestige quotes by 143 unique authors

At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth… — Howard W. Hunter
American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of… — Sydney J. Harris
Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are… — Plato
By leadership, I mean taking complete responsibility for an organization's well-being and growth, and changing it for the better. Real leadership is not about prestige,… — Robert L. Joss
Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing. — Enid Nemy
The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the… — Naomi Wolf
In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner. — Eric Ambler
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.... — Igor Stravinsky
Human dignity is more precious than prestige.... — Claude McKay
Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend. — Alfredo Di Stefano
Even during the period when Rome lost much of her ancient prestige, an Indian traveler observed that trade all over the world was operated with… — Unknown Author
It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil,… — George Matthew Adams
Whatever prestige the bourgeoisie may today be willing to grant to fragmentary or deliberately retrograde artistic tentatives, creation can now be nothing less than a… — Gil J Wolman
All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape… — Ivan Chtcheglov
I thank God for his many blessings he has given me, but money and prestige are not what it's about. I seek spiritual progression. — Glenn Hughes
Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security and prestige it begins to find it more… — Steven Biko
The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives them a sense… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all… — Richard O'Brien
We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige — Barry Goldwater
Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing — Lord Acton
Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man. — Ai Weiwei
Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting… — David Brooks
Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power… — Paul Fussell

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