Quotes About Reputation

The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Snakes, too, help recall the goodness of being. They have had a bad press, yet of all the creatures of the field, stream, and forest they are perhaps the most peaceful - and most shy.

A reputation, once developed, is as valuable as a fine sword. But don't forget that it has to be a valid reputation. Or the sword's go no edge.

For a few years when I was at Cleveland Clinic, it was on the top ten U.S. News list for geriatric medicine even though we didn't even have a geriatrics department!

A Federal officer called Wyndham "a big bag of wind.

His father and mother eventually incorporated the change to their own names, probably because of their son's increasing fame, and perhaps also because the word Luder had a number of unattractive associations

The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world. So

One cannot demand "the truth" at any cost, and for this girl to admit in front of the class that her father is a drunkard is to dishonor him. How one tells the truth depends on circumstances.

Reed gazed at him, unmoved, 'You were so worried about your precious reputations. About the truth ruining you. You didn't see that you'd already been ruined and that the truth was the only thing that could have redeemed you.'" (Sheriff Dan Reed speaking to his Father. Blood Vines, p.355)

There are crimes that, like frost on flowers, in one single night destroy character and reputation.

Who made the 999 call?" "Dunno," said Purdy. "Mobile, probably." It's officers like Purdy that give the Metropolitan Police its sterling reputation for customer service that makes us the envy of the civilised world.

Even at ten o'clock in the morning it was going to be full of members of the public. Rich, influential members of the public, many of them foreign, a lot of them with some level of diplomatic immunity. 'What I'm saying here,' Seawoll had said, 'is try to limit the amount of damage you do to none fucking whatsoever.' I don't know where I got this reputation for property damage, I really don't

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee

He was highly respected in Europe and around the world.

investors did not see the results as credible,

A wise man once said that no one should call himself 'Dr.' unless he has delivered a child," Epstein wrote. "Think about it, Dr. Jill, and forthwith drop the doc."14 The media reacted with unmitigated scorn and fury. Dr. Jill, they said, was not merely a doctor—she was the greatest doctor since Jonas Salk.

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconstant, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

Parece buen muchacho ese Pablo.

Remember that credit is money.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.