Best 569 quotes in «reputation quotes» category

Inside, I found three things: a silver mirror, a silk handkerchief, and a glass flask of ointment. These items will help you on your journey. use them when need be. If you ever lose faith in yourself, the mirror will show your inner beauty. In case your reputation is stained, the handkerchief will remind you of how pure your heart is. As for the balm, it will heal your wounds, both inside and outside.

In the minds of their peers, too often students become caricatures of themselves.

In this business, it's not what you know, or even who you know. It's who knows you, that makes all the difference.

In the past, I have bargained myself away, believing that price was more important than cost, quality, reliability, or reputation. In the past, I was clearly wrong.

In this world there are those who enjoy giving people balloons and there are those who take great pleasure in popping them. And I wish to be remembered as being firmly in the first party.

It is better to lose friends than to lose your reputation, and better to lose riches than to lose your integrity.

It is by sharing their knowledge, skill and wealth that the wise turn mastery into art, kindness into reputation and, when they die, become immortal.

In the past, I have all too often listened without hearing, asking questions when I had no intention of hearing the answer or understand my customer’s requirements.

In this age people have become more loyal and attached to personal brands,individuals than companies, brands. [You get the emotional highs and lows, but real issues overlooked]. In a social media driven world, every piece of content we put out there can make or mar us

I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.

Is this the end of all the endings? My broken bones are mending With all these nights we're spending Up on the roof with a school girl crush Drinking beer out of plastic cups You say you fancy me not fancy stuff. All at once this is enough.

It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.

It is so easy to practice a creditable degree of so seeming virtue, and so difficult to purify and direct the affections of the heart, that I feel myself in continual danger of appearing better than I am; and I verily believe it is possible to make one’s whole life a display of splendid virtue and agreeable qualities, without ever setting foot towards the narrow path, or even one’s face towards the strait gate.” – Hannah More

It saddens me to note that there will always be con artists and charlatans in the world. Men who aim to fool the public by clothing themselves in the robes of experts.

It's easier to maintain a good character than to recover it when it's gone bad!

It seemed inequitable at best that one could and did gain a reputation for things that left one both physically and emotionally unsatisfied.

It is your duty to save these prospects from that disappointment. Every potential customer, who misses out on what you have to offer, due to your lack of zeal or passion, every prospect who ends up with an excuse of an alternative from your lacklustre competition, should rest heavy on your conscience.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.

It's important to understand that while honor is an entitlement to respect--and shame comes when you lose that title--a person of honor cares first of all not about being respected but about being worthy of respect.

It was his misfortune to be respected as a writer by almost everyone except those with whom he most consorted.

I want you to start realising how far away you are from being able to listen professionally.

I was so sure that I knew what they needed and what I wanted to sell them that I never stopped long enough to find out what it was they wanted to buy.

I will design my reputation and my resolve shall be absolute. I shall not give in when I know I can help.

I will not let those, who cannot recognise how I can be of service, dissuade me from showing them how I can help.

I will look the part. I will act the part. I will deliver that which I have promised to deliver.

it is not only what we have that enhance our dignity but what we do with what we have also magnifies our reputation to the highest level

I will design myself a reputation, in which prospects can place their trust, and customers return to and recommend.

Lord Damerel said that he knew well that it would be *infamous* to take advantage of you, when you knew nothing about the world and had never been beyond Yorkshire, or met any other men - well, only Mr Yardley! - so that you were almost *bound* to have fallen in love with him, and how *could* you understand what it would mean to be married to a man of his reputation?

Many consult their reputation; but few their conscience.

Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.

I wished, first of all, to buy my way into people's good graces with my book so that, in subsequent personal contact, I would find the ground already prepared, and, I reasoned, if I succeeded in implanting in their soules a favorable image of me, this image would in turn shape me; and so, willy-nilly, I would become mature.

Most men have professions, yet few act like professionals.

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

Mud Slinging is so much fun,when you do it to others. But remember the day someone else does the same to you,youll realise how bad the mud in your mouth tastes. Think twice before you go around ruining the reputation of others. Because what goes around comes around for sure.

Moque-toi d'une mauvaise réputation. Crains une bonne que tu ne pourrais pas soutenir.

Natafuta mwanamke mwenye utu, wema, uaminifu na tabia njema – sifa ambazo ataendelea kuwa nazo hata uzeeni. Sifa hizi zinaweza kubadilika kwa sababu ya maisha au kwa sababu ya mapenzi ya Mungu, lakini mabadiliko haya hayatakuwepo kwa haraka. Sura haidumu. Tabia hudumu.

My intention was, only, ever to help you see the light shining brightly in front, and inside, of you.

O cara trabalha a vida inteira e dá o dinheiro dele para outra pessoa administrar, e essa pessoa ganha uma taxa de administração para tomar conta dele, se ela perder o teu dinheiro, foda-se, a taxa de administração continua ali. Mano, você emprestaria sua esposa para o Kid Bengala comer por um fim de semana e ainda daria 20 mil para ele pelo serviço? Buy side é isso aí, a pessoa comum e mal informada, acha que não percebe de investimentos e acaba botando o seu tão suado dinheiro, na mão de um zé ruela que é socialmente aceite só porque é bem vestido, tem um MBA lá fora e sobrenome estrangeiro.

Most writers deserve the reputation posterity has bestowed upon them: You can’t for long conceal the toxic spots on your character—Philip Larkin is Exhibit A—nor can you conceal your dignity, your humanism, your regard for veracity and freedom.

One's reputation must not exceed one's capabilities; by your works you shall be known.

Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good.

Our reputations are so out of our control that it's laughable how much time and effort so many of us put into trying to "control" them.

p. 274 ...his trademark decision to surrender power as commander in chief and then president, was not...a sign that he had conquered his ambitions, but rather that he fully realized that all ambitions were inherently insatiable and unconquerable. He knew himself well enough to resist the illusion that he transcended human nature. Unlike Julius Caesar and Oliver Cromwell before him, and Napoleon, Lenin, and Mao after him, he understood that the greater glory resided in posterity's judgment. If you aspire to live forever in the memory of future generations, you must demonstrate the ultimate self-confidence to leave the final judgment to them. And he did.

People change, though, especially after they are dead.

People with disabilities are sometimes very humble and approachable, if you want a seasoned reputation, then behave like one of the handicaps.

Never pay attention to someone who has not earned your respect.

Pricing is branding.

Private lives are more important than public reputations.

Proshka was a man of self-esteem. He considered himself a cut above the rest, and had a degree of personal pride. His spell in prison was a humiliating experience for him. No longer could he strut with pride before his fellows, and his spirits sank at once. Proshka went home from prison embittered not so much against Pyotr Nikolayevich as against the whole world. Everyone said the same thing: after he came out of prison, Proshka went to pieces. He grew too lazy to work, took to drink, and was soon caught stealing clothes from the trademan's wife. Once again he ended up in prison.

On the security circuit in the Middle East, reputation is everything. If you don’t know someone, they’re probably not worth knowing.