Reputation Quotes

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

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

Most people just give up with time and go, "I'm a victim." The only reason I've got the reputation for delays and spending a long time on things is because I just don't stop.

Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit.

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

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

My reputation grows with every failure.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

If you honestly know how you help people, then you should become passionate about sharing it, spread the good news, give everyone a chance to share in the solutions that you can provide.

Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.

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.

A penumbra of sombre dignity has descended over his reputation.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.

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

Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.

I have this burgeoning reputation for playing a scumbag.

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist

Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he'd gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers.

Trust and reputation are not discretionary. They are as necessary in business as the people in whom they reside.

Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.

In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

I have not a clue why they sent it to me. As far as I know I have not got a reputation as a receiver of stolen goods.

I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after my reputation.

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

No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost.

You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.

To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.

Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

My reputation is aggressive this and aggressive that.

Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

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.

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

Next to war, art is the greatest way to immortalize a reputation.