Quotes About Reputation

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

Those who murder fame Kill more than life destroyers.

How they treat you defines them. How you treat others defines you.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.

Honor is how others see you. Pride is how you see yourself.

One of Russia's tsars, around 1580, was known as Ivan the Terrible, and rightly so. Beside him Nero was mild.

Once a cad, always a cad

No man's credit is as good as his money.

A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Every church and believer must ask: What are we known for in the community? What do we represent?

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

in China, where a career of banditry in early youth often indicated a man of strong character and purpose.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.

However, he initially saw no moral issue with Falkland and dismissed any criticism of the work as faux outrage and contended that he was content to attract readers to his works by any means, including controversy. Leslie George Mitchell states that Bulwer-Lytton, or just Bulwer as he was known at that time, considered his poetry to be his finest work and wished to increase its readership through his novel writing and reputation.

No manager ever got fired for buying IBM.

Leave not a stain in thine honor.

If you're too lazy to start anything, you may get a reputation for patience.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.