Best 569 quotes in «reputation quotes» category

But we've got to work. We can't just live on reputations at all - by any means.

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well.

Citizens, the priority now is to recover trust between the Egyptian - amongst the Egyptians and to have trust and confidence in our economy and international reputation and the fact that the change that we have embarked on will carry on and there's no going back to the old days.

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

Despite that sort of reputation that Canada has of being a boring place, we really have produced really interesting politicians.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

Don’t wreck my reputation / Let me wreck my own

Colonialism has a bad reputation in the modern context, but Colonial Africa was a far better place for both black and white before the colonists gave up.

Dont spoil reputation with too speaking.

Each of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of all of us. And all of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of each of us.

Epidemics of "bad" voice can kill your reputation overnight.

Excellence means representing the reputation of Christ well. It means doing all things as best as you can...

Everybody was inspired by the drawings and the wind tunnels and the race cars - but no one wanted to work with me because I had a reputation for being an aerodynamic dictator!

Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.

Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.

Fame is a constant effort

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.

Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation.

Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.

Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.

Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.

Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table.

Hope I lived up to my reputation for being slick.

He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.

His reputation preceded him before he got here.

I am like a Rolls- Royce. I can run without an engine, purely on reputation

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

I can't destroy the whole army, and anyway [Tikka Khan] bad reputation for the events in Dacca is exaggerated.

I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.

I didn't have a job. Employers were afraid of losing their reputations. I didn't have a reputation. I had zilch. So, I had the freedom, which unemployment gives you, and that was to behave as badly as I believed I should under the circumstances. And the circumstances were quite awful.

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

I do have this reputation for being a serious person.