Best 569 quotes in «reputation quotes» category

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.

Dont spoil reputation with too speaking.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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...

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

Fame is a constant effort

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

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

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

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

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

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

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

His reputation preceded him before he got here.

Hope I lived up to my reputation for being slick.

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

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.

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

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.

I'd like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade.

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

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 do have this reputation for being a serious person.

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

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.

If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.

If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.