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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.

Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.

Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.

Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman has not subsequently been surpassed, and who is to say his contemporaries were wrong?

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

M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.

Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.

My reputation has grown slowly.

My career suffered massively because I had a reputation for being a very tabloid person.

My father always said, "You don't know who you are until you know where you came from." That's one thing I always remembered. The other thing that my family always taught me was respect and reputation. You always respect yourself.

My reputation is aggressive this and aggressive that.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

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

New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.

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.

No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out in the form of this or that reputation, starting with the literary... Since death has come to be accepted by all as the absolute end, everyone writes.

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.

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.

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

Nothing is as fast as the speed of trust. Nothing is as fulfilling as a relationship of trust. Nothing is as inspiring as an offering of trust. Nothing is as profitable as the economics of trust. Nothing has more influence than a reputation of trust.

....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

Not necessarily reputation, rank, societal position or status,but the happiness and enjoyment that a person pretends or fakes to derive with his possessed money or wealth or both make largely others jealous and envious of him.

Once asked if he felt wearied by the constant onslaught of autograph seekers, actor Gregory Peck replied that he would be more worried when they stopped asking.

Once established, reputations do not easily change.

Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system's reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company.

One of the fruits of longevity is establishing a reputation you may not deserve.

Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan's image.

Posterity is always just.

Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.

Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

Purpose should determine approach.  At the end of the day, it's what we do, not what we purposed to do, that defines our lives and reputations.

Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.

Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets - and can be lost in a heartbeat.

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

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

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

Reputations do not win matches and trophies, only goals can do that

Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.

Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided.

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