Quotes About Reputation

It's not just that,' she said, trying to explain in a way he would understand. 'My life - any lady's life - is made up of morning calls, and musicales, and balls. I would be thrown out of society. No one would receive me or send invitations. That's what it means to be ruined.

Cattle die, kindred die, every man is mortal: but the good name never dies of one who has done well.

en esta ciudad que exalta en exceso los ánimos y hace promesas que luego no cumple.

I hear they're givin' you a bad reputation just because you've never been denied. You try to say you've done it all before, baby, you know that you just get tired. Yet everybody loves you so much, girl, I just don't know how you stand the strain. Oh, I, I'm the one who's here tonight, and I don't wanna do it all in vain.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Legacy is simply what you will be remembered for or celebrated for after your demise. In other words, legacy is all about what you've succeeded in building or destroying during your lifetime. Yes! that is it. Anyway, endeavour to succeed in leaving only positive legacy behind rather than negative aspect of it. For, positive legacy is the only legacy that is ever worth leaving behind for the posterity ahead. ~Emeasoba George

The most burning question. What will you be remembered for after your demise? Will you be remembered for good or bad, peace or war, stinginess or generosity?

Your actions ought to be louder than your words. Moreover, your actions do tell people more about you rather than your words. Besides, it is the collection of your actions that will eventually beget your reputation and never your words. -Emeasoba George

I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.

It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.

Irish heroes, for one reason or another, have come off, it must be owned, but poorly before the bar of history.

The world knows what you seem; it does not know what you are.

He earned a national reputation managing large political campaigns, turning them into media-driven extravaganzas with emphasis on sound bites and perception over any kind of substance, and his win rate was astonishingly high. That probably said more for the gullibility of the modern voter than the high standards of the modern candidate.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

In the eyes of many Parisian women, Felix, a sort of hero of romance, owed much of his success to the evil that was said of him.

Despite all you may have heard to the contrary, I have never had a ride in a patrol wagon.

No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.

Colonial wives had a reputation for being dowdy.

I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal ' the 'New York Times ' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

everyone hated her, and some people actually knew she was a good mother. It helped to rekindle her faith in herself. "I

The S. D. D. comes out in June, I'm told. Prepublication sales have been quite good and Cape are reissuing STG and Less Than Angels. I don't think I shall ever be liable for VAT but I have bought a new account book (as advised in the last no. of The Author – I expect sales have shot up!). But the main thing is to feel that I am now regarded as a novelist, a good feeling after all those years of 'This is well written, but…

I was humiliated to be charged with something so contemptible as sexual harassment. People think we had this big affair. It was a personal relationship that amounted to very little. I told her that I thought it was a mistake, and she became furious and sued me. She ended up dropping the case.

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

He who exults in popular esteem has the daily burden of anxiously striving, acting and contriving to preserve his reputation. For the populace is fickle and inconstant, and unless a reputation is preserved it soon withers away.