Best 569 quotes in «reputation quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.

I haven't got a good reputation with pain.

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 hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

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

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

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'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 protective of the reputation of Christ and the church.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

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

I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.

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 I sort of have a love/hate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids.

I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.

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

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

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 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.

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