Quotes About Prestige

It's nice to be liked, but it's better to be respected.

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

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.

Reputation is the road to power

Why do we care about what other people earn or own? Because we tend to regard life as an ongoing competition for social status. When

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

See, you always buy with notes. Coins are beneath you. You become a whisky-millionaire.

as Joel Mokyr has argued, technological innovation is unlikely to happen quickly where those who work lack wealth, education, and prestige, and those who are wealthy, educated, and have prestige know nothing about productive work.

Anyone who can be cool about his first visit to the Oval Office has lost so much body heat that rigor mortis is probably about to set in.

Jesus' understanding of his vocation came out of wrestling with God, himself and the devil in the solitude of the wilderness.8 Resisting the temptations to a false self based on power, prestige or possessions, Jesus chose his true identity as the deeply loved Son of God.

Those who work bullshit jobs are often surrounded by honor and prestige; they are respected as professionals, well paid, and treated as high achievers

If the ongoing importance of a manager is measured by how many people he has working under him, the immediate material manifestation of that manager's power and prestige is the visual quality of his presentations and reports. The meetings in which such emblems are displayed might be considered the high rituals of the corporate world.

He wanted to be respectable rather than powerful; he did not want the controversy that went with power.

If Tim Duncan had Knicks on his jersey, he'd be a god.

Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to .. the GCMG ('God Calls Me God').

I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It's not showy, but we represent God, and it should be first class.

As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.

To be a part of something like 'Tron,' good God! It doesn't matter how big or small your role is, you're like, 'Yeah, I was in 'Tron.''

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.

That's what the Ivy League is. And many of the people there are legacy. Their families went there; their families are in government. The kids go there.

I've never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn't know how really great he is.

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

I went to great schools. Wharton School, a lot of great places.

I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.