Best 569 quotes in «reputation quotes» category

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

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.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

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

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

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.

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

Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.

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.

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

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.

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

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

His reputation preceded him before he got here.

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.

Hope I lived up to my reputation for being slick.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

I do have this reputation for being a serious person.

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

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

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

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of 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 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 are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.

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

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

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 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 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.