Reputation Quotes
No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is more than a momentary flurry.
If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.
Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away.
Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
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.
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.
The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.
Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.
He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.
Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.
The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.
Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.
A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.
I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional.
Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.
No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.
Many good people mistake their reputation for their character. It is a mistake I have made many, many times.
I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.
Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.
Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.
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.
For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.
I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.
