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

The only thing 'championship' about Wimbledon is its prestige. — John McEnroe

We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly. — Judy Holliday

I thank God for his many blessings he has given me, but money and prestige are not what it's about. I seek spiritual progression. — Glenn Hughes

The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant. — Benjamin Graham

No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it. — China Mieville

The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets. — Patrick O'Brian

Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily. — Eleanor Catton

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

Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing. — Enid Nemy

Leopold, like most men of power and prestige, was not so much interested in listening to what others had to say as he was in having an audience. — Jeremy Robinson

the wretched practices of the Republic endured: corruption, decadence, the lust for prestige. — John Jackson Miller

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

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. — Jean Chretien

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

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing — Lord Acton

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators. — Igor Stravinsky

Prestige and premium will also play an important role in the future. But some people define these values differently today. — Norbert Reithofer

There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind. — Robert Bork

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

Unfortunately, here as elsewhere on this touching planet, imitation is the watchword and prestige the highest ambition. — J.D. Salinger

Your reputation has no duplicate. You are one till the end of time. Once it is damaged, a fresh personality cannot spring from the old one. — Michael Bassey Johnson

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. — Vanessa Redgrave

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

New technologies compete with old ones - for time, for attention, for money, for prestige, but mostly for dominance of their world-view. — Neil Postman

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

The kingmaker. He regained both prestige and fresh mating opportunities. — Frans De Waal

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

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some. — Ken Keyes Jr.

The Oscar prestige was fine, but I worked more before I was nominated, — Juanita Moore

Associating with the wise and the knowledgeable people adds to the prestige of a person. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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

I felt that I shouldn't be an actor who just makes movie after movie in a quest for prestige and money. — Kevin Spacey

The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend. — Alfredo Di Stefano

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

I find it extremely frustrating that those who strive for prestige get a free pass on the bad behavior it often takes to get there. — Charles F. Glassman

The painstakingly extracted purple dye was a luxury item of such prestige that the color purple became a way of showing wealth and power. — Mark Kurlansky

If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist. — Camille Paglia

If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay. — Liezi

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power. — Albert Camus

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

All my films have found distribution and prestige in the Japanese market, so I actually feel my films are very well received and seldom misunderstood. — Linda Hoaglund

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. — Charles De Gaulle

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

Space was a hostile environment that required a sharp and cunning mind over prestige any day. That, and a shit load of weapons. — Kiersten Fay

To create mass discord, make the people believe there is great prestige for being the first to speak an idea. — Tom Althouse

Prestige, the breath of life, is itself nebulous. — George Orwell

Having more prestige over yourself could help you to increase your values. — Saaif Alam

There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned. — Sade Adu

All of a sudden your whole life becomes a public issue. Money, wealth, people, prestige - all of that suddenly comes into play. — Christopher Atkins

True leadership is not defined by notoriety, power, prestige, status, or job title... — Angie Morgan

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. — Camryn Manheim

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

War is the supreme form of prestige. — Simone Weil

It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw. — Simone De Beauvoir

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. — Charles De Gaulle

It is well known that the Nobel Committees bring world opinion to a focus, and that fact still further enhances the prestige attaching to the Prizes. — Robert Robinson

Now he was nothing to her, just a lesson in time, a wicked boy-man, incapable of wealth or prestige. — Coco J. Ginger

Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit. — P. J. O'Rourke

I don't need prestige or wealth," he said softly. "I need you, and I want you with me forever. — Melanie Dickerson

Youth may be admired for vigor, but gray hair gives prestige to old age. — Eugene H. Peterson

To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects. — Greg Carlson

Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power, or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. — C. Wright Mills

Prestige! Sir, is it nothing? To be revered by fools, gaped at by children, envied by the rich and scorned by the wise. — Stendhal

Science is in low regard. — Leo Kadanoff

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

There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government. — Brian Mulroney

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

Real leadership is not about prestige, power, or status. It is about responsibility. — Robert L. Joss

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit. — P. J. O'Rourke

What deserves my loyalty, art or prestige? — Anis Shivani

Doomed to procreation and secondary tasks, stripped of her practical importance and her mystical prestige, woman becomes no more than a servant. — Simone De Beauvoir

Often times, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become. — John Ensign

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

Human dignity is more precious than prestige ... — Claude McKay

But none of it will be real. None of them will want me. My throne, yes. Prestige. A conquest. But not me. — Rae Carson

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. — A.J.P. Taylor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THIS IS THE FACE OF A MAN LOOKING AT A WOMAN HE LOVES. HE HAS NO MONEY OR PRESTIGE, ONLY A HEART. — Renee Ericson

Guilt is the flip side of prestige and they're both horrible reasons to do something. — Maria Popova

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

One night of strategic bombing will restore all your lost prestige in the Middle East, — Michael B. Oren

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

Sometimes it is easy ... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court. — Anthony Kennedy

prestige, and possessions are the three things that prevent us from recognizing and receiving the reign of God. . . . — Jen Hatmaker

Clothed in the majesty of the law one may get away with murder, but lacking the law's prestige one defends himself at the risk of life and liberty. — J. Sidna Allen

Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, — Birdman