Best 569 quotes in «reputation quotes» category

I think the Democrats did a terrible disservice, the Hillary Clinton campaign did, to Tim Kaine. Tim Kaine had the earned reputation of being one of the most respected and well-liked, and not cheap partisan members of the United States Senate. And they turned him into an attack dog.

I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers with very high reputations, even Nobel prize winners, often sell in very low figures.

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.

It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.

I took anything that came across my doorstep. I started getting a reputation.

It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincolns single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

It's really amazing what a money reputation will do for your social standing.

It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings.

It's funny because I think it also goes very well with the show. It has this reputation as being this love city where everyone goes to get married, but when you get there, it's very corny and tacky.

It's shocking how bright your star is.

It's good to have a brand that is consistent that people know about and trust. But it's also good to mix it up and adapt it, to polish it a bit and give it a new aspect. To not violate the reputation you've established but give it a new edge and veneer to show other aspects that people hadn't suspected.

It's not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

I value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.

It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically in the right central position for an influence in Asia and Australia, and NUS has the reputation and academic strength to make it effective.

I was spoiled and I was arrogant. I was very demanding, had an overblown image of who I was and got a reputation for being difficult. And rightfully so.

I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.

I wanted to work in a restaurant. Le Cirque was looking for a chef and they approached me. I was excited to be able to be part of this restaurant with an amazing reputation, but not a good one for food at the time. I made it clear that if I was coming to Le Cirque it was going to change.

I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.

I want my reputation to be judged on how I tackle the problem of ice if I'm elected as the member for Canning.

I was Patient Zero. The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet.

I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.

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.

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

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!

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

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

Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.