Best 569 quotes in «reputation quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.

The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.

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.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online.

The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.

The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.

The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.

The reputation Hillary Clinton had at Wellesley and Yale was, "My God, this woman single-handedly could end up running the world! This is the smartest woman!

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.

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

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

The reputation of those countries which cater to the foreign policy interests of other states at the expense of their own national interests will go down regardless of how they explain their actions.

The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

The Road was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.

The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.