Reputation Quotes

Reputation are made every day and every minute. - Christopher Ruel

 

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial! - William Shakespeare

 

A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions. - Raymond Spruance

 

It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women. - Source Unknown

 

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men. - William Wycherley

 

I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them. - Princess of Wales Diana

 

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. - St. Evermond

 

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well. - Benjamin Franklin

 

The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence. - Benjamin Haydon

 

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed. - Samuel Johnson

 

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question. - Charles Lamb

 

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap. - Mignon Mclaughlin

 

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. - Pliny The Elder

 

Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down! - Henry Rink

Take care of your reputation. It's your most valuable asset. (Life's Little Instruction Book) - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

 

Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. - Margaret Mitchell

 

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smoke-able which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry. - Mark Twain

 

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. - Margaret Mitchell

 

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger

 

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. - Gone With The Wind [1939 Movie]

 

I have been at my book, and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation. - Ben Jonson

 

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. - Charles Caleb Colton

 

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial! - William Shakespeare

 

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.-Charles Caleb Colton

 

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.-Stockwell Day

 

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.-Socrates

 

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.-Kim Novak

 

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

 

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.-Michael N. Castle

 

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.-Charles Caleb Colton

 

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.-Millicent Fawcett

 

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.-Brian Koslow

 

These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation.-Dick Durbin

 

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.-Daryl Gates

 

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.-Dag Hammarskjold

 

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.-Voltaire

 

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.-Samuel E. Morison

 

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.-Warren Spahn

 

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.-Bryant H. McGill

 

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.-Margaret Mitchell

 

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.-John F. Kennedy

 

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.-John Larson

 

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.-Bill Toomey

 
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