Prestige Quotes

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband). (James Thurber)
Such is the prestige of the Nobel award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practiced it through the ages. View quote
John Steinbeck
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. View quote
John F. Kennedy
It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control. View quote
Camryn Manheim
For all its prestige, its fabulous views, its indoor pool, and its lovely garden, 24 Sussex is more like an old hotel than a modern home. View quote
Jean Chrétien
Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom. View quote
William O. Douglas
The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege. View quote
Simone Weil
The necessity for power is obvious, because life cannot be lived without order; but the allocation of power is arbitrary because all men are alike, or very nearly. Yet power must not seem to be arbitrarily allocated, because it will not then be recognized as power. Therefore prestige, which is illusion, is of the very essence of power. View quote
Simone Weil
Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man. View quote
Ai Weiwei
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men. View quote
Margaret Mead
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. (Charles de Gaulle)
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair. View quote
André Maurois
The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant. View quote
Benjamin Graham
The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions. View quote
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
Associating with the wise and the knowledgeable people adds to the prestige of a person. View quote
Ali
The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic in that it has been designed for works of lofty inspiration; international in that it is awarded after the production of different countries has been minutely studied and the intellectual balance sheet of the whole world has been drawn up. Free from all other considerations and ignoring any but intellectual values, the judges have deliberately taken their place in what the philosophers have called a community of the mind. View quote
Henri Bergson
The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore as leaders, we must stop worrying about the threat we seem to think we pose to each other's personal prestige; and concentrate our united efforts towards solving the unending hurt that is being done daily to our people here in America. View quote
Malcolm X
There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. ... Many of these theories have been killed off only when some decisive experiment exposed their incorrectness... Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest. View quote
Michio Kaku
Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose face. Stupid of course, when put like that, but who is prepared to argue that we are not stupid in several important ways? View quote
Robertson Davies
We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. [...] One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life. (S. I. Hayakawa)
We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the function, the program, the task, the need; but immense attention to the role, the procedure, prestige, and profit. View quote
Paul Goodman
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science. View quote
Derek Barton
Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing. View quote
Enid Nemy