“ Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation; to publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates; and to bear the consequences. ”
- Susan B. Anthony- Copy
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“ The Mischievous Dog A dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice. His master suspended a bell about his neck so that the Dog might give notice of his presence wherever he went. Thinking it a mark of distinction, the Dog grew proud of his bell and went tinkling it all over the marketplace… ”
- Aesop- Copy
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“ Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. ”
- Charles de Gaulle- Copy
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“ It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory. ”
- Louisa May Alcott- Copy
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“ Reputations are made by searching for things that can't be done and doing them. ”
- Frank Tyger- Copy
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“ Open your mouth and purse cautiously; and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. ”
- Johann Georg Zimmermann- Copy
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“ Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality. ”
- St. Thomas Aquinas- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Vanessa Redgrave- Copy
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“ Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him. ”
- Sidney Madwed- Copy
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“ Far too many executives have become more concerned with the "four P's" — pay, perks, power and prestige — rather than making profits for shareholders. ”
- T. Boone Pickens- Copy
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“ Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service and character. ”
- William A. Ward- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- A. J. P. Taylor- Copy
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“ Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position. ”
- Douglas Murray McGregor- Copy
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“ Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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