Quotes About Reputation

In the nature of man we find three principal causes of quarrel: gain (predatory raids), safety (preemptive raids), and reputation (retaliatory raids).

meaning is about expressing rather than satisfying the self: it is enhanced by activities that define the person and build a reputation.

We judge people not just on what they do but on what they are - not just on whether someone has given more than he has taken, but on whether he is the kind of person who would sell you down the river or knife you in the back if it were ever in his interests to do so.

While Trump has cultivated a reputation for law and order, he is viscerally uninterested in evidence-based policy that would distinguish effective crime-prevention measures from useless tough talk.

The essence of a culture of honor is that it does not sanction predatory or instrumental violence, but only retaliation after an insult or other mistreatment.

PHILOSOPHY TODAY GETS no respect.

Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.

If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

I'm not a movie star. I'm a brand name. Van Damme is like Levi's. I go on vacation, and everywhere I go, people love me for my name, not for my movies.

In an interview, Paris Hilton said that of her and her sister, "People love to hate us. But when you know us, you love us. And if you really get to know us, you get gonorrhea."

I just want to comment on how It's become a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in Love with my sloppy seconds

Do what you LOVE to do, and do it so well that those who come to see you do it will bring others to watch you do it again and again and again.

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!

I think people see me definitely as a "gangsta" rapper, and what people love about me is when they meet me and they meet me again later, I'm the same dude they spoke to and ain't nothing changed.

Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.

Okay. Here's what I've learned. You can live your life being nice to everyone, you can be a loving son, a moderately decent student, never do hard drugs or impregnate anyone's daughter, be an all-around good guy and live in harmony with all of God's creatures. But crash one stolen Mercedes in front of the police station when you're fifteen years old and they'll never let you forget it.

There are no facts. Hierarchical position and reputation as a consequence of skill and competence? All definitions of skill and of competence are merely made up by those who benefit from them, to exclude others, and to benefit personally and selfishly.

can't see how this behaviour would have improved his popularity or status.

Quando um homem morre, ele se reintegra em sua respeitabilidade a mais autêntica, mesmo tendo cometido loucuras em sua vida. A morte apaga, com sua mão de ausência, as manchas do passado e a memória do morto fulge como diamante.

Nas ruas em torno sobravam as mexeriqueiras velhas e jovens, pois para exercer tal ofício não se exige documento de idade. Dona Dinorá era a primeira dessas xeretas; em sua atividade tamanhos sucessos obteve a ponto de ser-lhe atribuída fama de vidente.

el que se gana la credibilidad ahorra palabras.     Excelencia

al que toma el camino de las cumbres, los envidiosos le carcomen la reputación con saña malévola;