Quotes About Reputation

Speaking of friends…why did our new coyote buddies run from you?" – Sundown "I'm that badass." – Sasha "Seriously." – Sundown "O ye of little faith. You doubt my rep? My skills?" – Sasha "And your brains." – Sundown

We are who people think we are.

any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.

You know, when you're in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record.

We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.

On should life his life in such a way that even bastards remember him.

Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

Anyone who's lived their life to the fullest extent has a scandal buried somewhere.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.

Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.

I never want someone to come out of one of my films and say, "Damn. I wasted an hour and a half of my life." I'm trying to avoid that.

I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.

I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

Today we live in a cash-for-trash world. Anyone can stand up and say anything unkind, unfair or completely untrue about you, and then they are rewarded financially for it ... because life is unfair.

I'm not trying to have my whole life out there in the media.

Rudy Giuliani needed to feel safe because he turned his life into a public mess. A public mess that the "New York Tabloids" covered daily.

A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.

Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.