Reputation Quotes

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

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.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us.

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.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

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.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

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.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.

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.

Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.

SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.

I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.

The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you're portraying that character that he's imagined and millions of readers have pictured.

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.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.

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.

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.

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.

Please, please, please - I would love to do some comedy. Once you have a reputation for one thing - in my case, crying and dying - you are typecast.