Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.Jean de la BruyereEtiquetteInfluencePrestige Share this
You can’t be considered a great player unless you win Wimbledon. That’s the way it is.Mats WilanderAchievementPrestige Share this
An overall title is one of the biggest things you can win in our sport.Lindsey VonnAchievementCompetitionPrestige Share this
You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something, you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.Lou HoltzIdentityPrestigeSuccess Share this
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.George Bernard ShawEducationLanguagePrestige Share this
No golfer has completed his education until he has played and studied Royal Dornoch.Herbert WindEducationGolfPrestige Share this
It’s what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige.George Matthew AdamsActionCharacterPrestige Share this
All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.George MonbiotFreedomMoneyPrestige Share this
If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.James WhistlerChemistryHumorPrestige Share this
The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.Jane ByrneMusicPrestigeSuperiority Share this
People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.Aldous HuxleyPrestigeSocialization Share this
Associating with the wise and the knowledgeable people adds to the prestige of a person.Ali ibn Abi TalibKnowledgePrestigeWisdom Share this
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.Ambrose BiercePrestigeSeriousnessSkill Share this
Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.Ai WeiweiPrestigeSuccess Share this
Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.Adam SmithPrestigeRespectTradition Share this
Oftentimes, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.John EnsignArrogancePowerPrestige Share this
Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.Susan SontagArtPrestigeReality Share this
Larousse has a place of honor on every cookbook shelf in America.Martha StewartPrestigeRecognition Share this
I’d won the Australian Open twice, but winning Wimbledon takes something special.Stefan EdbergAchievementPrestige Share this
When Steven Spielberg comes calling, it behooves you to seriously consider it.Stephen LangConsiderationOpportunityPrestige Share this
The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.Steven GerrardCompetitionDesirePrestige Share this
How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.Mahatma GandhiPowerPrestigeWealth Share this
Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.Nat HentoffCelebrationPrestigeRecognition Share this
To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. Charlie Munger Achievement Deserving Success
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Jean Cocteau Deception Perception Reality
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Jean Cocteau Identity Individuality Rebellion
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Charlie Munger Worry
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Charlie Munger Criticism Past Stupidity