Reputation Quotes

If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.

It takes ten times longer to get rid of your reputation than it does to make it.

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.

I had such a reputation, and it was sad because I felt like it so didn't represent who I really was.

If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.

I don't do normal. I have a reputation to uphold. (Thwonk)

That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.

It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincolns single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.

I've been in this biz so long, it's really my reputation that brings me work.

If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.

Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character is what you really are

Be more interested in character than reputation

I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president.

I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not.

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.

You still have," I looked at my watch, "twelve seconds to change your mind. Find someone else and save your reputation." One side of his lip cricked up. "I found you. I'll take my chances.

You know, Taylor, I told his manager that your reputation in this firm is that you can go head-to-head with any man. And win.

Reputation will become an even more important currency in the future.

When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion.

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

I have a reputation in my professional work, negotiating contracts, where I've gone into deals where other people haven't closed the deal, and I've been able to get it done.

Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.

Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation.

It's important for me to live up to my reputation.

I think I sort of have a love/hate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids.

The filmmaker is really important to me: it could be their first film; it's not just about their reputation, but I have to really believe in them.

kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

There are two things you will never be without: One is your reputation and the other is your credit rating.

London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.

I never had that reputation of being not accessible.

You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.

I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.

I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding." "To save your reputation?" Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale throat revealed by the robe. "Someone has to make a respectable man of me.

The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism, and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist.

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

Everybody was inspired by the drawings and the wind tunnels and the race cars - but no one wanted to work with me because I had a reputation for being an aerodynamic dictator!

I took anything that came across my doorstep. I started getting a reputation.

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

I somehow got this reputation of diddling and dithering. I don't remember dithering at all.

Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

Boston didn't always have the best reputation, nor did I, growing up in Boston, as a kid with challenges and obstacles in front of me.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

I have the reputation for being the opposite of a money-grubber.

What we do in public determines our reputation; what we do in private determines our character.