Best 569 quotes in «reputation quotes» category

I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed by Mr. Hoover who had been appointed Director continuously. He had, I would say, a good reputation.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!

Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.

London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.

Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.

Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.

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.

Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.

Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.

My reputation is aggressive this and aggressive that.

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 has grown slowly.

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.

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

New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Posterity is always just.

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