Reputation Quotes

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

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 lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.

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.

You only have one thing in business, and that is your reputation

Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

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.

In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

Many good people mistake their reputation for their character. It is a mistake I have made many, many times.

My reputation is a media creation.

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.

They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.

I don't believe in destroying GOOD mysteries or adding to BAD reputations.

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.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.

If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it.

There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

Posterity is always just.

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-" "She's foul enough to be one..." "Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

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.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.

I am better than my reputation

The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

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.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse

A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.

The Road was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.

Colonialism has a bad reputation in the modern context, but Colonial Africa was a far better place for both black and white before the colonists gave up.

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

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.