Reputation Quotes

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.

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

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.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.

There can be no success in sales without tenacity.

I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.

You could say that the Hell's Angels have a bad reputation, then you talk to a biker, and he's trying to join it. It just depends upon who you're talking to about reputation.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.

An entertainer's reputation as a live act is the most valuable thing he or she can have. If people know you give good shows, you'll never be broke for the rest of your life.

Judge [Samuel] Alito has a reputation for being an exceptional and honest judge devoted to the rule of law, as well as being a man of integrity.

Privacy is dead. Reputations are dying.

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

I developed a reputation as a "hothead" because I got in the face of a lot of reporters and they thought I was just a hotheaded person. What they didn't understand was that I was motivated by love.

O reputation! dearer far than life.

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife.

A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

I continued a legacy of great skating from this country and I was able to capitalize on the reputation of the Canadian skaters that came before me. I especially mean Brian Orser.

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

Companies should increasingly see themselves as major corporate citizens with a wider responsibility to the community. Nothing less than their reputation - their image - is at stake.

Industries do everything they can to enhance the reputations of the industry and their products.

It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?

Many people hold me ultimately responsible toward the actions and reputation of the global football community. I cannot monitor everyone all of the time.

Don't drink alone, Scarlett. People always find out and it ruins your reputation.

I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation.

I have a reputation for doing superheroes, but I like all kinds of writing. In fact, hardly anybody knows this, but I've probably written as many humor stories as superhero stories.

I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

Your reputation is none of your business.

Reputation is generally proof of how little one knows about a person.

A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.

Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.