(21 quotes found)
“Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.”
William Arthur Ward
“There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.”
Charles de Gaulle
“Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.”
Louis Ferdinand Celine
“Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing”
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
“2-1-2. It's prestige. It's the Big Apple. And you hardly have to move your finger to dial it.”
Norma Davidoff
“Far too many executives have become more concerned with the "four P's" - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.”
William Penn
“Basically the business people at The New York Times also believe that the prestige of the paper and its performance on a story of this size is what makes it a newspaper they feel they can sell to readers and to advertisers and therefore make revenue eventually.”
Warren Hoge
“We are not looking for power, ... We are not looking for prestige. We are here because we care very, very deeply about the nation. ... We love God, we love our neighbors and we act out of a love of God and love of our neighbors.”
Chuck Colson
“Prestige is the shadow of money and power.”
C. Wright Mills
“This was about a bunch of garbage that nobody cared about. His problem was that he put all his prestige on the line for these measures that were arcane and in many cases poorly drafted.”
Tony Quinn
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