Quotes About Reputation

While he lived, I wished to say to Rosie, you scarcely had a gentle word for him and lived in fear of his drunken rages and other cruelties. But I did not remark out loud upon this, only noting privately to myself that death can work most extraordinary changes to a person's reputation and all that we have wished someone to be while they lived, they become, the moment they are dead.

Ye've a furtive look in your eye - a furtive, sneakin', poachin' look in your eye, that 'ud ruin the reputation of an archangel!

All Pathans are not faithless—except in horseflesh.

Today, we each need to guard against various large and small Outrage Machines of the political Left. Otherwise, we can be shunned, harassed, dogpiled, smeared, publicly shamed, devastatingly labelled, falsely accused of wrongdoing, or otherwise hurt and harmed for trivial, dubious, or non-existent transgressions. Our good reputations can be destroyed, our jobs can be threatened or ended, and our careers can be ruined.

Of a man who only wills the Good out of fear of punishment, it is necessary to say with special emphasis, that he fears what a man should not and ought not to fear: loss of money, loss of reputation, misjudgment by others, neglect, the world's judgment, the ridicule of fools, the laughter of the frivolous, the cowardly whining of consideration, the inflated triviality of the moment, the fluttering mist-forms of vapor.

The disgrace of your barrenness, Madam, is not yours alone. Don't you know that shame is collective? The shame of any one of us sits on us all and bends our backs. See what you're doing to your husband's people, how you repay the ones who took you in when you came penniless and a fugitive from that godless country over there.

When we presume to lie for the benefit of others, we have decided that we are the best judges of how much they should understand about their own lives—about how they appear, their reputations, or their prospects in the world.

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

Every popular zillion dollar sport has its share of personal scandals around the sport and its leadership.

But I would say basically, I would just like to be remembered for what I did on the field.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Its kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.

The costs of poor quality are tangible; they will cost you customers and money, and ultimately affect the success of your business.

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

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

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.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

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.

Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known, for others it depends on never being found out.

Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.

In Hollywood, you're never any better than your last picture.

Success causes us to be more praised than known.

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.