Best 569 quotes in «reputation quotes» category

Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

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

Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?

Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, Kill it. Squish it.

Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he'd gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.

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

You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you can avoid the mistake of those who meet with an extraordinary piece of good fortune, and are led on by hope to grasp continually at something further, through having already succeeded without expecting it.

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

You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.

You earn your reputation by the things you do every day.

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

You know, Taylor, I told his manager that your reputation in this firm is that you can go head-to-head with any man. And win.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

Your brand name is only as good as your reputation

You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good; You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's alright, it's alright; Sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human, you're allowed to make your share of mistakes.

You're less apprehensive when you know what to expect. Also, the first flight is very important in this performance-driven culture I work in; it establishes your reputation. If you don't do well, it's probably your last flight.

A cold grin flashed across his face. "I'm not guilty of half the things I'm accused of. But I encourage the rumors, and I never deny even the worst of them. I want people to regard me with fear and respect. Good for business." "Are you saying that you haven't stolen from people, and framed and betrayed and blackmailed-" Gentry interrupted her with a sound that expressed pure annoyance. "I'm not a saint." Despite Sophia's distress, she almost wanted to laugh at the understatement.

Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.

Your reputation is none of your business.

A critical ingredient which binds customers to a brand is trust

Adopt the positive in everything you do, for there will always be positivity there to find, if that is what you seek.

A lady is like a lovely stick of chewing gum,” Miriam parrots. “Sweet and unblemished, but if you’re not careful, every lad around will take a taste.” “But no decent man,” I continue, mimicking a crotchety old sod, “will want to put a used stick of gum in his mouth.

Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.

Ali, of course, hasn't whipped every obstacle in his life. Only enough of them that we remember him as having done so.

A poet could kill the dead.

All those people who are chained here thinking that their reputations matter and this little shit matters are so freaking shortsighted. Dude, what matters is that you're happy. What matters is your future. What matters is that we get out of here in one piece. What matters is finding the truth of our own lives, not caring about what other people think is the truth of us.

All you need to be recognized as an authority is to be recognized by a recognized authority

A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.

Appearance tyrannizes over truth.

A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.

A reputation is like a shadow; it hides when you go to sleep, but always returns with the sun…

A reputation is what you hear when no one is there to speak for it.

...As for all the little people who call themselves Marquis de Cambremerde or de Gotoblazes, there is no difference between them and the humblest rookie in your regiment. Whether you go and do wee-wee at the Countess Cack's or cack at the Baroness Wee-wee's, it's exactly the same, you will have compromised your reputation and have used a shitty rag instead of toilet paper. Which is unsavoury.

Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your name.

As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound. There is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism (as the time of Augustus Cæsar) were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

Before you tell people to check you out with hopes that they will write a check to you for your services… Check yourself. Check your references. Check your claims. Allow all those checks to be cashed in truth. Bad results from those bad checks highlighting overdrawn, unsubstantiated and unproven hype will keep you in a negative balance with your reputation and financial situation.

A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false.

Be the person your dog thinks you are! - JW Stephens

Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your beliefs against labeling, thus making you a hypocrite.

Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are.

Bertie’s gaze fell there and his blue eyes widened. “Deuce take you, Jess,” he said crossly. “Can’t a fellow trust you for a moment? How many times do I have to tell you to leave my friends alone?” Miss Trent coolly withdrew her hand. Trent gave Dain an apologetic look. “Don’t pay it any mind, Dain. She does that to all the chaps. I don’t know why she does it, when she don’t want ‘em. Just like them fool cats of Aunt Louisa’s. Go to all the bother of catching a mouse, and then the confounded things won’t eat ’em. Just leave the corpses lying about for someone else to pick up.” Miss Trent’s lips quivered.

But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.

But naturally Jackson's giving Danny the play-by-play because, hello, if you were Jackson and Gloria liked you, wouldn't you be renting a billboard about it?