Reputation Quotes

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

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

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

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

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

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

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan's image.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.

You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

My reputation grows with every failure.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.

Because of the incredible reputation I have, people find me exciting to watch on film.

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.

I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful and honest. And I think that's been a thorn in my side.

Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.

Switching over to a hybrid car is one of those right things, but, unfairly or not, it still has a reputation among car enthusiasts as something you have to pedal really fast when you're on the ramp merging into traffic on the 401.

I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see me because they want to, not because fashion dictates it.

I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

Ultimately as a leader, you're evaluated on how you interact with people. If you do it well, you develop a reputation as effective leader. If you don't, you develop a reputation for being a highly ineffective leader.

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed by Mr. Hoover who had been appointed Director continuously. He had, I would say, a good reputation.

There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

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

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

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

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'

I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness the 9/11 'truthers' who, lacking any evidence whatsoever, claim that 9/11 was a Bush administration plot.

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It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

I never had that reputation of being not accessible.

As a lawyer who has dealt in defamation, I know that someone's reputation has to be lowered in the eyes of right-thinking people to sue.

I have a reputation for being pretty much of a wild man.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.

I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.

If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.

Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.

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

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.

I'm such a klutz!

My career suffered massively because I had a reputation for being a very tabloid person.

I do have this reputation for being a serious person.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.