Quotes About Reputation

to be known as "an Edinburgh Reviewer" made people stop and stare at dinner parties or literary gatherings—although sometimes it made other people stand up and walk out.

Would Erasmus now step forward and endorse Luther as one of his own? Would he acknowledge that they were fighting on the same side and lend the tremendous weight of his reputation to the Lutheran cause?

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.

Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Ciertas fanfarronadas se esfuman viajando, y que cada cual tiene las ciudades y la memoria que se merece

I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.

Bir küçük yerden ç?kan btyük adam? oral?lar bitürlü adam yerine koymazlar. Köyden ç?km?? da doktor olmuÅŸsa hemÅŸerileri onun doktorluÄŸuna güvenmezler. Böyleleri için: Kap?n?n düvesi öküz olmaz.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Even that which is untrue, if accepted as true by the world, especially by the elders, becomes the truth. It is publicity-of a fault or virtue that bears fruit as ill repute or fame. The actual truth may earn its reward in the hereafter, but that is of no use here.

Fortune is to be honored and respected, and it be but for her daughters, Confidence and Reputation. For those two, Felicity breedeth; the first within a man's self, the latter in others towards him.

Death hath this also; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

You can't be admitted to the ranks of writers of importance unless you have sales.

I think, British food, it's had a bad rap.

After 2008, my brand of finance got a bad rap.

I think America has a bad rap right now... and hopefully Obama will change that.

I definitely don't want to be one of the bad guys. And I don't want to be one of the people who bring rap a bad name. That's not me.

I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else.

It's not only about the rap lyric. Today, people are buying you as a person.

I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.

I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap.

Los Angeles gets a very bad rap, the perception, especially by us Brits, is 'Oh, it's so fake,' but it's the antithesis!