Prestige Quotes

“Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's ever held a truly personal desire, he'd find the answer. He'd see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men. He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion - prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded. He can't say about a single thing: 'This is what I wanted because I wanted it, not because it made my neighbors gape at me'. Then he wonders why he's unhappy.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Some people think they can find satisfaction in good food, fine clothes, lively music, and sexual pleasure. However, when they have all these things, they are not satisfied. They realize happiness is not simply having their material needs met. Thus, society has set up a system of rewards that go beyond material goods. These include titles, social recognition, status, and political power, all wrapped up in a package called self-fulfillment. Attracted by these prizes and goaded on by social pressure, people spend their short lives tiring body and mind to chase after these goals. Perhaps this gives them the feeling that they have achieved something in their lives, but in reality they have sacrificed a lot in life. They can no longer see, hear, act, feel, or think from their hearts. Everything they do is dictated by whether it can get them social gains. In the end, they've spent their lives following other people's demands and never lived a life of their own. How different is this from the life of a slave or a prisoner?”
― Liezi, Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living

“Now he was nothing to her, just a lesson in time, a wicked boy-man, incapable of wealth or prestige.”
― Jamie Weise

“Nothing in my view is more reprehensible than those habits of mind in the intellectual that induce avoidance, that characteristic turning away from a difficult and principled position, which you know to be the right one, but which you decide not to take. You do not want to appear too political; you are afraid of seeming controversial; you want to keep a reputation for being balanced, objective, moderate; your hope is to be asked back, to consult, to be on a board or prestigious committee, and so to remain within the responsible mainstream; someday you hope to get an honorary degree, a big prize, perhaps even an ambassadorship. For an intellectual these habits of mind are corrupting par excellence. If anything can denature, neutralize, and finally kill a passionate intellectual life it is the internalization of such habits. Personally I have encountered them in one of the toughest of all contemporary issues, Palestine, where fear of speaking out about one of the greatest injustices in modern history has hobbled, blinkered, muzzled many who know the truth and are in a position to serve it. For despite the abuse and vilification that any outspoken supporter of Palestinian rights and self-determination earns for him or herself, the truth deserves to be spoken, represented by an unafraid and compassionate intellectual.”
― Edward W. Said

“Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.”
― Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Advice for a Young Investigator

“Yesterday I was clever, so I took the glory for me. Today He makes me wise, so I give the glory to Thee”
― indonesia123

“जब बात अपनी इज्जत की आती है, तो आदमी कायर हो जाता है.”
― Ankita Jain, Aisi Waisi Aurat

“​In this World, there is One Task, that 'Only You' can Do. Only You, Can Keep Your Word.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.”
― indonesia123

“The pursuit of social success, in the form of prestige or power or both, is the most important obstacle in a competitive society.”
― Bertrand Russell, Portraits From Memory and Other Essays

“The pursuit of social success, in the form of prestige or power or both, is the most important obstacle to happiness in a competitive society.”
― Bertrand Russell, Portraits From Memory and Other Essays

“What my family seeks in this marriage is prestige; what I seek is happiness.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Social status among humans actually comes in two flavors: dominance and prestige.12 Dominance is the kind of status we get from being able to intimidate others (think Joseph Stalin), and on the low-status side is governed by fear and other avoidance instincts. Prestige, however, is the kind of status we get from being an impressive human specimen (think Meryl Streep), and it’s governed by admiration and other approach instincts.”
― Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

“Between the extreme limits of this series would find a place all the forms of prestige resulting from the different elements composing a civilisation -- sciences, arts, literature, &c. -- and it would be seen that prestige constitutes the fundamental element of persuasion. Consciously or not, the being, the idea, or the thing possessing prestige is immediately imitated in consequence of contagion, and forces an entire generation to adopt certain modes of feeling and of giving expression to its thought. This imitation, moreover, is, as a rule, unconscious, which accounts for the fact that it is perfect. The modern painters who copy the pale colouring and the stiff attitudes of some of the Primitives are scarcely alive to the source of their inspiration. They believe in their own sincerity, whereas, if an eminent master had not revived this form of art, people would have continued blind to all but its naïve and inferior sides. Those artists who, after the manner of another illustrious master, inundate their canvasses with violet shades do not see in nature more violet than was detected there fifty years ago; but they are influenced, "suggestioned," by the personal and special impressions of a painter who, in spite of this eccentricity, was successful in acquiring great prestige. Similar examples might be brought forward in connection with all the elements of civilisation.

It is seen from what precedes that a number of factors may be concerned in the genesis of prestige; among them success was always one of the most important.
Every successful man, every idea that forces itself into recognition, ceases, ipso facto, to be called in question. The proof that success is one of the principal stepping-stones to prestige is that the disappearance of the one is almost always followed by the disappearance of the other. The hero whom the crowd acclaimed yesterday is insulted to-day should he have been overtaken by failure. The re-action, indeed, will be the stronger in proportion as the prestige has been great. The crowd in this case considers the fallen hero as an equal, and takes its revenge for having bowed to a superiority whose existence it no longer admits.”
― Gustave Le Bon, سيكولوجية الجماهير

“It takes several right actions to build reputation and it takes just one wrong action to ruin it.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ನಮ್ಮವರಾಗಿರಲ್ಲ; ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಸ್ವಾಭಿಮಾನಕ್ಕೂ ಬೆಲೆ ಕೊಡಿ. -ಲೀ”
― Lingesh gowda

“Esteem needs. Maslow classified these into two categories: Esteem for oneself (dignity, achievement, mastery, independence). The desire for reputation or respect from others (e.g., status, prestige). Maslow indicated that the need for respect or reputation is most important for children and adolescents and precedes real self-esteem or dignity.”
― Ross Edgley, The Art of Resilience

“Ill-treat men as you will, massacre them by millions, be the cause of invasion upon invasion, all is permitted you if you possess prestige in a sufficient degree and the talent necessary to uphold it.”
― Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

“. . . from her earliest days at Versailles, Marie Antoinette staged a revolt against entrenched court etiquette by turning her clothes and other accoutrements into defiant expressions of autonomy and prestige . . . it is my belief that she identified fashion as a key weapon in her struggle for personal prestige, authority, and sometimes mere survival.”
― Caroline Weber, Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

“Is your job title your identity? When you introduce yourself, do you also include what you do for a living? If so, you may be meeting people who want to know what you do, because they want to know what you can do for them.”
― Jarod Kintz, Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

“I've been invited to events at a number of private clubs over the years. Luncheons and Dinners in exclusive spaces. Award ceremonies at the Country Club. Boasts of "...since 1890." Bland chicken. Dull conversation. People pay a lot of money to be bored.”
― Damon Thomas, Some Books Are Not For Sale

“To prefer to be the servant rather than the lord of the household is the path of downward mobility in an upwardly mobile culture. To taunt the idols of prestige, honor, and recognition, to refuse to take oneself seriously or to take seriously others who take themselves seriously, and to freely embrace the servant lifestyle—these are the attitudes that bear the stamp of authentic discipleship.”
― Brennan Manning, Reflections for Ragamuffins: Daily Devotions from the Writings of Brennan Manning

“Your name is not sufficient for your identity”
― Rashid Jorvee

“My prestige is not in your actions towards me, my prestige is in my actions towards you”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“... we can say that it takes generations for a firm to understand
value before they can adapt to it.”
― Anas O Hamshari B Sc, Bringing the World of Super Luxury to Kuwait: 2014 Dissertation by Anas O. H. Hamshari, from the European School of Economics in Florence, Italy

“Vraag de bevolking van Parijs of het een goed idee zou zijn om de Eiffeltoren te bouwen, gesteld dat die niet al gebouwd was, en ze zou massaal tegenstemmen. Te duur, nutteloos, een prestigeobject van de politieke elite. Dat geld zou veel beter besteed kunnen worden aan scholen, ziekenhuizen en belastingverlaging. Vooral aan belastingverlaging. Het volk is per definitie conservatief. Het wil alles bij het oude laten en vooral geen gekkigheid, want zoals het is, is het al erg genoeg. Het is niet voor niets dat het over het algemeen dictators zijn die de meest ambitieuze nieuwbouw verwezenlijken, terwijl onze moderne democratieën niets anders zullen nalaten aan het verwonderde nageslacht dan de notulen en verslagen van eindeloze inspraakprocedures.”
― Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Brieven uit Genua

“If anything, sources that have the support and protection of power and institutions should be treated as suspicious not superior. There are very few words that make me as nauseous as words like ‘prestige’ and ‘prestigious’. Prestige is often a shortcut for getting power’s approval and blessings, which automatically, in my view, should disqualify any intellectual from being taken seriously.”
― Louis Yako

“Brigade Fountain Square is an afresh residential venture planned and projected by Brigade Groups in premium neighbourhood of Bangalore. The premise is outlined to be coming up over behemoth land boundaries marked with right proportions of structural establishments in decorous with well-balanced open spaces constituting lush, expansive landscapings and the ornate of state of the art amenities and facilities.”
― prestige green gables

“Taxi Driver"
There is something strangely liberating
about being just a taxi driver…
The secret lies in the “just”!
Because you’re just a taxi driver,
nobody really sees you…
But you see, hear, and feel
the absurdities, the shallowness,
the beauty, the sorrow,
the joy, the heartbreak of every rider!
Most treat you with half or totally fake respect,
because you’re just a taxi driver…
But they leave you alone
They don’t find justifications
or create crises
to take over your seat…
In fact, they want you to be exactly in that seat!
After all, they only ride with you
because - at least for that time –
they don’t wish to occupy your seat…
Yet, like every sense of liberation,
Being a taxi driver, is a liberation
kneaded with a strange sadness and disappointment
when you realize that the motherfuckers
only leave you alone
when you run away from them
and occupy a seat that they don’t desire
during the their ride ….

[Original poem published in Arabic on June 21, 2923 at ahewar.org]”
― Louis Yako

“Becoming a shepherd is prestigious if your herd is the human race.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov