Top 307 Prestige Quotes & Sayings

A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.

Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

The Oscar prestige was fine, but I worked more before I was nominated.

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

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.

If you are a natural scientist, a publication the journal Science carries enormous prestige.

...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no right to spend energy on?

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

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

I thought I should have a Rolls, for prestige, so I ordered one. But when it came, I realized that I didn't really need it.

We have been distracted into unnatural motivations: money, prestige, power. Listening to the cuckoo is not going to give you money. Listening to the cuckoo is not going to give you power, prestige. Watching the butterfly is not going to help you economically, politically, socially. These things are not paying, but these things make you happy.

How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true.

The mind always hankers for more and more. If you have money, it hankers for more money; if you have prestige, it hankers for more prestige; if you have knowledge, it hankers for more knowledge. Mind lives in the 'more.'

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

Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

To be honest, prestige is probably the last thing I focus on.

The prestige of the international financial institutions rates less than zero.

I have total confidence in Beaute Prestige International to accompany me in creating a perfume that interprets my work and my world.

When I came into the NFL, there were three things that were very important to me: money, power and prestige. I was powerful now because I was a famous athlete. I had prestige because I was doing what everybody wanted to do. And I had a lot of money.

Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to be a Christian--to bear the cross Christ gives me to carry and to follow in the footsteps of the great Crossbearer.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

Prestige podcasts, like prestige television shows, tend to have an audience that believes itself literate, well-informed, and reasonable. Listening to podcasts, in this model, is a form of virtue.

The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.

Human dignity is more precious than prestige.

Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

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

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

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

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

Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.

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

The line between winning and losing is very thin, and wins give you prestige, stability, and continuity.

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

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

A lot of the conceptualists and the prestige galleries are debasing themselves in presentations which have little else to them but the presentation.

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

My dad is Jean-Paul Bourelly, a really prestige guitar player in Europe, and he toured with Miles Davis. I was always surrounded by the most prestige kind of musicians from Senegal, Trinidad, Poland, Nigeria, and all around the world.

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

The dangers of an Afghan collapse are many: Afghan deaths, a loss of American prestige, a loss of NATO prestige, a moral blow to U.S. troops and veterans, a Taliban resurgence, huge setbacks for women, and greater power for Pakistan and Pakistani extremists.

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

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

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

It's no wonder there is a mad scramble for victim status on many campuses today. It confers authority and prestige.

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.

People talk about the prestige of beating records but prestige never bought me dinner in a restaurant. It's winning games that does that.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige

The only thing championship about Wimbledon is its prestige.

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.