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Letter "P" » prestige
«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.»
«Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
| About:
Judgement
| Keywords:
disagreement, disagreements, in disagreement, prestige, shrink, shrink from, testing, trusting
«2-1-2. It's prestige. It's the Big Apple. And you hardly have to move your finger to dial it.»
«Religion which is interested only in itself, in its prestige and success, in its institutions and ecclesiastical niceties, is worse than vanity; it is essentially incestuous.»
Author: S. H. Miller
| About:
Religion,
Success
| Keywords:
Bad Religion, ecclesiastical, essentially, incestuous, institutions, interested, niceties, nicety, prestige, such institutions, vanity, worse
«Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom.»
«Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
| Keywords:
character, discovered, found, goodness, greatness, humility, in service, position, positioning, possessions, prestige, service
«Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books.»
«Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.»
Author: Charles de Gaulle
| Keywords:
prestige
«Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Mankind,
War
| Keywords:
conscientious, conscientious objector, distant, enjoys, mankind, objector, prestige, reputation, warrior
«Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?»
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