Reputation Quotes
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I am better than my reputation. (Quote by - Friedrich Schiller)
Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down! (Quote by - Henry Rink)
HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned. (Quote by - Richard Russo)
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage. (Quote by - Graeme Murphy)
You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth. (Quote by - Terry Gilliam)
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. (Quote by - Jeff Bezos)
Work is the price which is paid for reputation. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
This has been a long and tiring battle for 10 years. And I'm glad it's finally resolved. My principles and reputation as a creative artist were involved here-it wasn't just about the royalties. I can now look foward to getting on with my career. (Quote by - Irene Cara)
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - 300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business. (Quote by - Warren Spahn)
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. (Quote by - Alexandre De Talleyrand-périgord)
I have offended reputation, A most unnoble swerving. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation. (Quote by - Richard Jewell)
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. (Quote by - Pliny The Elder)
Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars. (Quote by - Rupert Murdoch)
Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation. (Quote by - Henry Anatole Grunwald)
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. (Quote by - Robert Benchley)
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation. (Quote by - Kate Bush)
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States. (Quote by - Peter Singer)
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time. (Quote by - Douglas Jerrold)
It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation. (Quote by - Anthony Holden)
With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools. (Quote by - Glenn Close)
No book was ever written down by any but itself. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation. (Quote by - Margaret Cavendish)
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. (Quote by - MARGARET MITCHELL)
It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.' (Quote by - Mikhail Gorbachev)
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. (Quote by - Margaret Mitchell)
Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. (Quote by - Lord Jeffrey)
It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks. (Quote by - James Payn)
As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade. (Quote by - Jo Ann Emerson)
One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy. (Quote by - Brian Koslow)
You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights. (Quote by - Elvis Costello)
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health? (Quote by - Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards)
I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill. (Quote by - Calvin Klein)
Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist. (Quote by - Ethel Merman)
One may be better than his reputation or his conduct, but never better than his principles. (Quote by - Niocolas Valentin de Latena)
The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change. (Quote by - Stockwell Day)
Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours. (Quote by - Brian Koslow)
Reputation is in itself only a farthing-candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one. (Quote by - Marcus V. Pollio)
Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife. (Quote by - John N. Mitchell)
In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want. (Quote by - Brit Hume)
A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd. (Quote by - John Gay)
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail. (Quote by - Carroll O'Connor)
I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation. (Quote by - Geoffrey Rush)
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. (Quote by - Margaret Mitchell)
If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you. (Quote by - Tom Hicks)
We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination. (Quote by - Jay Alan Sekulow)
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you will do things differently. (Quote by - Warren Buffett)
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me. (Quote by - Dwight L. Moody)
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. (Quote by - Henry A. Kissinger)
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow. (Quote by - J. B. Priestley)
Reputation is a jewel which nothing can replace; it is ten thousand times more valuable capital than your diamonds. (Quote by - Edouard Rene Lefebure Laboulaye )
I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it. (Quote by - Robert Emmet)
My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life. (Quote by - Thomas Kretschmann)
It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. (Quote by - Richard Bentley)
Concealed talent brings no reputation. (Quote by - Desiderius Erasmus)
How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations! (Quote by - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne)
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes. (Quote by - Desiderius Erasmus)
In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet. (Quote by - Lord Chandos)
I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown. (Quote by - Elizabeth I)
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. (Quote by - Warren Buffett)
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom. (Quote by - Myrtle Reed)
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. (Quote by - Jules Renard)
Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters. (Quote by - Mrs. Anna Jameson)
Reputation is like fine china once broken it's very hard to repair. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood. (Quote by - Sylvester Stallone)
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company. (Quote by - George Washington)
I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service. (Quote by - King Hussein I)
I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it. (Quote by - Mae West)
You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school. (Quote by - Eli Whitney)
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Their families helped them realize that there was more out there for them. These students came to Delaware State because of its inexpensive tuition, closeness to home, and solid reputation. (Quote by - Michael N. Castle)
When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many. (Quote by - Julius Erving)
First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast. (Quote by - Brian Koslow)
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. (Quote by - Saint Francis de Sales)
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
At ev'ry word a reputation dies. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
Judge a man by the reputation of his enemies (Quote by - Arabian Proverb)
It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark. (Quote by - Calamity Jane)
And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread. Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future to insure,' couldn't be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through. (Quote by - Michael N. Castle)
It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you. (Quote by - Matthew Hale)
I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation. (Quote by - C. L. R. James)
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest. (Quote by - Epicurus)
A good reputation is more valuable than money. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
I see my reputation is at stake; My fame is shrewdly gored. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. (Quote by - John Zimmerman)
O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation. (Quote by - Francis Atterbury)
Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for. (Quote by - Robert Quillen)
But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation. (Quote by - Marcus V. Pollio)
Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on. (Quote by - Derek Jacobi)
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. (Quote by - Charles Simmons)
Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect. (Quote by - Bryant H. McGill)
Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert. (Quote by - Laurence J. Peter)
Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to. (Quote by - Cat Stevens)
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. (Quote by - Sallust)
To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. (Quote by -Marcus Tullius Cicero)
I never had that reputation of being not accessible. (Quote by - Lauren Holly)
Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis. (Quote by - Samuel E. Morison)
My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation. That away, Man are but gilded loam or painted clay. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do. (Quote by - Stephanie Tubbs Jones)
New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in. (Quote by - Jane Pauley )
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. (Quote by - Margaret Mitchell)
I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest. (Quote by - David Blunkett)
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. (Quote by - Epictetus)
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. (Quote by - John Wooden)
Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot. (Quote by - Phyllis Schlafly)
I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation. (Quote by - Ingvar Kamprad)
Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs. (Quote by - Anthony J. D'Angelo)
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. (Quote by - Socrates)
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character. (Quote by - John D. Rockefeller)
Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. (Quote by - Liz Smith)
Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over. (Quote by - Joshua Slocum)
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in. (Quote by - Saul Alinsky)
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have. (Quote by - Flavius Josephus)
The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies. (Quote by - Linus Torvalds)
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc. (Quote by - Henri Matisse)
I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures. (Quote by - Charles Kuralt)
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built. (Quote by - Derek Jacobi)
Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down! (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform. (Quote by - Susan B. Anthony)
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick; And thou, too careless patient as thou art, Committ'st thy anointed body to the cure Of those physicians that first wounded thee. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation. (Quote by - Vietnamese Proverb)
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man. (Quote by - Sam Houston )
If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it. (Quote by - Rem Koolhaas)
I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after my reputation. (Quote by - Katie Price)
When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue. (Quote by - Anthony Holden)
The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere. (Quote by - Kim Novak)
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker. (Quote by - Millicent Fawcett)
And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor. (Quote by - Vincent D'Onofrio)
It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation. (Quote by - John George Nicolay)
I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology. (Quote by - Paul Nurse)
All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation's reputation. (Quote by - Ramman Kenoun)
I did not have a reputation to defend. (Quote by - Roman Polanski)
Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. (Quote by - George Washington)
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines. (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold)
I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed by Mr. Hoover who had been appointed Director continuously. He had, I would say, a good reputation. (Quote by - John Sherman Cooper)
The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. (Quote by - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)
For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own. (Quote by - Laurence Housman)
It's funny because I think it also goes very well with the show. It has this reputation as being this love city where everyone goes to get married, but when you get there, it's very corny and tacky. (Quote by - Caroline Dhavernas)
At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years. (Quote by - Wietse Venema)
It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us. (Quote by - Albert Speer)
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. (Quote by - Victor Kiam)
The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing. (Quote by - Mike Simpson)
My reputation grows with every failure. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. (Quote by - Charles A. Beard)
It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera. (Quote by - Fred Savage )
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. (Quote by - Petrarch)
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. (Quote by - Nathaniel Branden)
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others. (Quote by - Douglas Jerrold)
And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
We are looking for targets that have a tremendous strategic fit for the company. The colleges must have complementary education programs, have an excellent reputation, long operating history and solid regulatory compliance. (Quote by - John Larson)
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
I have a bad reputation for being temperamental. (Quote by - Ted Kotcheff)
They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life. (Quote by - Daryl Gates)
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows. (Quote by - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand)
To be pointed out with the finger. (Quote by - Aulus Persius Flaccus)
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing. (Quote by - Paul Theroux)
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation. (Quote by - Arabian Proverb)
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind. (Quote by - George William Curtis)
A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation. (Quote by - James Atlas)
Once you lose your reputation, you don't mind it. (Quote by - Belva Porter)
I know for me like I have a reputation of being kind of tough, I have a reputation of also being the girl next door, kind of sweet but I have standards and my thing is, it's me on that screen and I don't have control over everything in this and I'm grateful and thankful. (Quote by - Nia Long)
Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved. (Quote by - Henry Mayhew )
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it. (Quote by - Christopher Gadsden)
I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that. (Quote by - Hugh Grant)
If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation. (Quote by - Gouverneur Morris)
I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair. (Quote by - Jane Alexander)
Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers. (Quote by - Elizabeth Arden)
Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here. (Quote by - Harold Brodkey)
A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one. (Quote by - Francis Jeffery)
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. (Quote by - Mencius)
In those days reputation was a big thing. If you could win a game before you went out, win it. That could mean winning it in the papers by saying certain things or by not saying certain things. You got very crafty at the game. (Quote by - Tommy Smith)
A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment. (Quote by - Ernest Bramah)
Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down. (Quote by - Geraldo Rivera)
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. (Quote by - Euripides)
