Best 569 quotes in «reputation quotes» category

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.

The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.

The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online.

The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.

The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.

The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.

The reputation Hillary Clinton had at Wellesley and Yale was, "My God, this woman single-handedly could end up running the world! This is the smartest woman!

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

The reputation of those countries which cater to the foreign policy interests of other states at the expense of their own national interests will go down regardless of how they explain their actions.

The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

The Road was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.

The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.

The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.

Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trespass on that of others, whereas nothing is so offensive as the aspirings of vulgarity which thinks to elevate itself by humiliating its neighbor.

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.

Too many journalists and scientists have built their careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers have staked their reputation on it. The death of this theory will be painful and ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong.

Tobin Bell wasn't obligated to do the second Saw film but he wanted to. I think they brought me into this film because there's a first time director, and my reputation is one of an actor who's there for the betterment of the project. I'm not there to better myself. I'm there to bring all my resources to the project to make it as good as it can be. In the end, that makes everyone look good.

Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for.

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.

Traditionally, with a DJ set, you just go hear DJ that has a good reputation and let the DJ take you somewhere. It was up to the DJ what he wanted to play. Typically in dance music, people didn't know most of the songs a DJ played.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

Trust and reputation are not discretionary. They are as necessary in business as the people in whom they reside.

Unfortunately, every American citizen takes the same position... that we don’t like negative advertisements. But they work! And, as you see, many a candidate has prevailed by tearing down the reputation of an opponent in a more advantageous position.

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.

Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend, no personal reputation to secure.

We all know that the Disney brand is our most valuable asset. It is the sum total of our seventy-five years in business, of our reputation, of everything that we stand for.

We cannot allow the reputation of football and FIFA to be dragged through the mud any longer.

We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation.

Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands; and is the only sure defence of happiness.

Well?' Jasper said when Mairelon did not reply. 'Who are you?' 'No, no,' Mairelon said. 'I asked you first. I also, if you recall, asked how you found this place and what you intend to do here, and you haven't told me that, either.' 'We might ask you the same thing,' Jasper retorted. 'You might, but I don't recommend it,' Mairelon said. 'You'll get a reputation as a poor conversationalist if you all can do is repeat what other people say to you.

We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.

Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

We depend on you to do the right thing; right for both you and the company. It is no exaggeration to say that IBM's reputation is in your hands.

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.