Best 569 quotes in «reputation quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Posterity is always just.

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

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

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

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

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

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

Reputation Is Temporary..As Much as The Man Owning Your Reputation Is

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.

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

So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.

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

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

Since most corporate competitors have the same problems with sustainability and social reputation, it's worth trying to solve them together.

Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.

Some of us are more concerned with our reputation than our character. The latter takes care of the former.

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

Sometimes you can have a reputation for not being relatable and nice because you had a bad day once.

Some staff doesn't work well under pressure. So I make sure that my staff is very comfortable. I've got a bad reputation for being quite callous when it comes to culling staff. They are selected personally by me. I socialize with all my staff and they know me well and I consider them friends and we travel overseas together.

Sometimes you can have a reputation for not being relatable and nice because you had a bad day once. That's the thing. You know, I think that's particularly pertinent with Justin [Bieber] because, like, you just forget how young he is.

Sting's legacy was built on Ric Flair's reputation.

Still, it formed one of my basic beliefs about success which is this: most of the time, success can be measured in terms of how much more than others you have of something that's in short supply. This includes money, reputation, respect, etc.

Switching over to a hybrid car is one of those right things, but, unfairly or not, it still has a reputation among car enthusiasts as something you have to pedal really fast when you're on the ramp merging into traffic on the 401.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

That should be regarded as a loss, which is won at the expense of our reputation.

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The Constitution gives you the right to a lawyer, but it doesn't allow you the right to a good reputation.

The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down

The death of deference seems to be general at the moment, so everybody has to earn their reputation and trust all over again. You don't just get it by virtue of being a professor or a politician or anybody else.

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.