Best 569 quotes in «reputation quotes» category

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

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.

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

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

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

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

If I were worried about my reputation, I wouldn't do anything with start-ups

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 we would be angry and not sin, we must be angry at nothing but sin; and we should be more jealous for the glory of God than for any interest or reputation of our own.

If we were able to rewrite the script for the reputation of Christianity, I think we would put the emphasis on developing relationships with non-believers, serving them, loving them, and making them feel accepted, only then would we earn the right to share the gospel.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.

If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.

If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation.

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

I got a reputation for being sort of nuts and difficult, because I was at that point, so I wasn't much in demand. And also, on the basic level, I'd made a lot of movies that didn't make money. And if you make movies that don't make money - I mean, it is a business, after all - you are not in demand.

I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there.

I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

I have the reputation for being the opposite of a money-grubber.

I haven't got a good reputation with pain.

I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.

I have not a clue why they sent it to me. As far as I know I have not got a reputation as a receiver of stolen goods.

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

I have this reputation of not wanting to talk to the media, which isn't true. What I don't like-what a lot of us don't understand-is how we can say one thing and it turns up in print as something else.

I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.

I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people.

I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.

I'm allergic to money, because the choices that I make usually concern the people and the project itself, rather than the financial gain that is projected. I have the reputation for being the opposite of a money-grubber.

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

I'm protective of the reputation of Christ and the church.

I'm not running like Colonel [Bernie] Sanders. All reputations matter.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation.

I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.

In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.

In any branding strategy, you need to figure out what is the image you want to project. Then behave accordingly. And above all, cultivate the media and those who will help you burnish your reputation.

I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

In fashion, we have a reputation for being such a façade, fake people, but none of the fashion people who I know are fake.

In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.

In Hollywood, people get reputations, just rumors that are passed down.

In the early days of the crash it was widely believed that Jesse L. Livermore, a Bostonian with a large and unquestionably exaggerated reputation for bear operations, leading a syndicate that was driving the market down.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.