Reputation Quotes

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

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.

I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

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.

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress.

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife.

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.

If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

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.

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.