Prestige Quotes

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

  William Arthur Ward

  Basketball, Character, Humility

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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

  George Matthew Adams

  Smart, Character, Giving

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

  Charles de Gaulle

  Mystery, Contempt, Familiarity

  Charles de Gaulle (1960). “The Edge of the Sword”, New York : Criterion Books

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• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Real, Artist, Giving

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• Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

  C. Wright Mills

  Power, Shadow, Money And Power

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.83, Oxford University Press

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

  Robert L. Joss

  Real, Responsibility

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• Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Pain, Struggle, Hero

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• Human dignity is more precious than prestige.

  Claude McKay

  Dignity, Human Dignity, Humans

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• I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that. 'The Prestige' with Chris Nolan, and 'Australia.' From my perspective it's very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don't. 'Wolverine,' 'X Men,' I know that in some level people know me just for that and it's fine for me.

  Hugh Jackman

  Men, Years, Australia

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• 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, power or status. It is about responsibility.

  Robert L. Joss

  Real, Mean, Responsibility

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

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, People, Add

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 78,

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Conquer, Death And Dying, Certain

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.255, Weiser Books

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

  George Monbiot

  Loss, World, Your Freedom

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• The Christian knows to serve the weak not because they deserve it but because God extended his love to us when we deserved the opposite. Christ came down from heaven, and whenever his disciples entertained dreams of prestige and power he reminded them that the greatest is the one who serves. The ladder of power reaches up, the ladder of grace reaches down.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Dream, Opposites

  Philip Yancey (2008). “What's So Amazing About Grace?”, p.180, Zondervan

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

  Charles de Gaulle

  Distance, Political, Politics

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• The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Leader, Atheism, Degrees

  Gustave Le Bon (2012). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.

  Simone Weil

  Expression, Personality, Privilege

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.74, Routledge

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• All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

  Dolly Parton

  Art, Believe, Media

  Song: Livin' A Lie

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• To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation with pay, all legal holidays, prestige and respect. My mother, for example, has the pleasant notion that my day consists of nodding graciously to the rustle of starched curtsies and a chorus of respectful voices bidding me good morning.

  Bel Kaufman

  Summer, Mother, Morning

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.

  Michael Caine

  Magic, Ordinary, Three

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• War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Presidential

  "Warrior" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2007.

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• The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.

  Hugh Jackman

  Truth, Simple, Reality

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

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Success, Yardsticks, Wealth

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• A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity.

  Rebecca West

  Real, Fake, Criticism

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.161, Open Road Media

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

  T. Boone Pickens

  Business, Four, Pay

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