Quotes for All
The man [who] is greatest and most blessed and joyful [is one] whose life most closely approaches the pattern of Christ. This has nothing to do with earthly wealth, power, or prestige. The only true test of greatness, blessedness, joyfulness is how close can a life come to being like the Master, Jesus Christ. He … Read more
I have a cosmetics line in Walgreens. It’s exclusively at Walgreens. It’s called Circa and it’s basically prestige cosmetics that are at drug-store prices. Eva Mendes
Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters … Read more
…in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered … Read more
We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that we- that I- exist. No matter how much he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas , if he, the whole man, is deaf to … Read more
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
Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing. Enid Nemy
What is generally regarded as success – acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige – I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished – his development has stopped at that point. Emma Goldman
Why did I start with them? Why do any of us choose one company over another as an employer? The money? At the beginning they all offer more or less the same and no one know how it will go after that. I guess it is often not so much your prospects at a particular … Read more
In your short stay in Atlanta, I’m sure you saw that there was great competition between Martin’s [Luther King] father and John Wesley Dobbs in terms of family status. You know, the bragging about whose child got a master’s degree first and whose child, maybe, was the first Ph.D. Out of a background like that, … Read more