Often times, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.
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.
Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.
A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time. All of the people of the Earth are in a desperate race against disaster. . . To save the Earth we must look beyond it, to interplanetary space. To present the collapse of civilization and the end of the world as we know it, we must understand that our planet does not exist in isolation.
There isn't a class structure in Nigeria, there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.
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.
Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige, or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on academic abilities, ignoring the emotional intelligence that also matters immensely for our personal destiny.
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?
All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.
People should really think about when they see President Donald Trump, they should think about all the places that he was and could be. All the things he could be doing. The political motivators for many typical politicians of which he's not one, Mercy, money, power, prestige, fame, he had all of that.
I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.
Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for swinging a bat or sinking a free-throw they may find that the rules have been suspended for them. They are waved through school and into the pros, and incidents of bad behavior are overlooked or covered up.
In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.
Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would have to be concerned with such matters as accuracy, validity, logic and the prestige of science. But it isn't. It's addressed to the public.
Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.
Sometimes it is easy. . . to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.
Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.