Quotes About Reputation

Sometimes, he thought wryly, a reputation for being right all the time could be a heavy burden.

Executing a criminal often makes a martyr of him. Once he's dead and gone, people all too often forget the crimes he's committed and start to see a more sanitised version. A person like that starts to be seen as a victim.

Now see what you have done?" he said. "Not only have you shamed me in front of a guest, you have made that guest lie on your behalf.

Some players are so bad they are hated. Some players are so bad they are forgotten. And some are so bad that they are loved, talked about, treasured.

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

I hate the man who builds his nameOn ruins of another's fame.

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Her integrity was on the line.

How can a good reputation be a hindrance? A good reputation naturally arises from doing good work. But if you try to cherish your reputation, if you try to preserve it, you lose the freedom and honesty necessary for further development.

To tell tales out of school.

People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house.

A policy of 'naming and shaming' is ineffective if everyone has been named and shamed.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

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The problem is that even top psychiatrists failed to identify them as real threats. And it's not as though psychiatrists lack incentives to get the diagnosis right. Beyond their reputation, professional pride, and desire to help, psychiatrists also have a legal obligation to inform authorities of threats. Families of the Aurora movie theater victims sued Holmes' psychiatrist for not recommending that his patient be confined.

I don't want them hanging a double murder on me. It wouldn't look good on my school record.

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As Dylan's reputation grew over the next couple of years, those traits went hand in hand. Shelton had previously called him "one of the most compelling white blues singers ever recorded," but now wrote, "His voice is small and homely, rough but ready to serve the purpose of displaying his songs.

The Vineyard is a great place to live… until you screw up.

She had Discernment to forsee, and avoid all those Ills which might attend the Loss of her Reputation, but was wholly blind to those of the Ruin of her Virtue; and having managed her Affairs so as to secure the one, grew perfectly easy with the Remembrance, she had forfeited the other.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.

We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

The U.S. president's consent to the Versailles Treaty did more to damage his reputation among his fellow liberals than anything else he did that crucial year. It also sowed the seeds for a bitterness among Germans that would ripen into the political movement that led to Adolf Hitler and World War II.

At Jeffrey's table, "the talk [was] always good, but never ambitious, and those listening never in disrepute.