Reputation Quotes

There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.

You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever

In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail.

I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.

Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality.

Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.

In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.

Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.

Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.

And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.

Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of value and reputation. Create value, through scarcity.

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

The Constitution gives you the right to a lawyer, but it doesn't allow you the right to a good reputation.

I haven't got a good reputation with pain.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

I can't destroy the whole army, and anyway [Tikka Khan] bad reputation for the events in Dacca is exaggerated.

Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like to play with you.

In fashion, we have a reputation for being such a façade, fake people, but none of the fashion people who I know are fake.

Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.

Purpose should determine approach. At the end of the day, it's what we do, not what we purposed to do, that defines our lives and reputations.

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

Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.

Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.

I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation.

The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.

Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

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

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.

Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

Once you prove yourself, that you're a utility player, they're going to contact you and say, hey, yeah, we need you for a film next Thursday at Fox or Sony or whatever. You kind of get a reputation.

You know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention to it anymore.

Dont spoil reputation with too speaking.

I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.

Always concentrate on the most valuable use of your time. This is what separates the winners from the losers. Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.

It's shocking how bright your star is.

One of the fruits of longevity is establishing a reputation you may not deserve.