Reputation Quotes

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Alan Smith... very much a striker, by reputation... and by fact

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. It's simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT!

I suddenly realized I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad.

I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

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.

Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song.

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

Sting's legacy was built on Ric Flair's reputation.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

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

Wisdom is better than silver and gold

Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

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

Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputetion is who people think you re.

Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

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

An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.

Be more concerned with your character than your 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.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.

Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.

Reputation shows who people think you are. Character shows who you really are.

Reputation is the road to power

Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.

Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

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 the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible.

One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

Be sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.

But we've got to work. We can't just live on reputations at all - by any means.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

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.

The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.

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

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

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

Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.