Quotes About Reputation

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

We believe that government in Britain should be working to restore our reputation on the international stage after Iraq and engage better within Europe.

Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

By being courageous enough to state the difficult truth, the most important reputation that you will preserve is your own.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

I think Rush have always had this reputation, particularly to non-fans, of being an ultra-serious and cerebral group when, in fact, the reverse is true. We don't take ourselves seriously at all. Sure, we take our music seriously, but that's altogether different.

Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you're portraying that character that he's imagined and millions of readers have pictured.

After a while, when the writer is mature, it doesn't really matter - not because of finances but because of reputation. It doesn't really matter how many awards you get.

I got the reputation of being hard to work with. It has been hard for me to get rid of it.

In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it.

I have enjoyed an impeccable reputation and have always maintained professionalism.

I did not have a reputation to defend.

John Higgins is an absolute legend. He has such a good reputation.

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

The whole college process for musical theatre majors is much different than others. The school sort of chooses you! Everyone knows which schools are the top schools and what tier each one is in. So if you get into a good school, you put it on your resume, and you already have a great reputation when you get to New York.

Even though I've got this really brawny, masculine reputation, I'm a Shondaland Thursdays kind of guy.

Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

I have a bad reputation, I guess.

My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend who'd recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

I've got a lot of coaching friends in the business, in basketball and in other sports, that really when you talk about choosing jobs, you want to make sure that you have a strong ownership group and the reputation of the DeVos family is as good as it goods.

We have a long history of our reputation speaking for itself.

Because I was drafted high, I got the reputation of being conceited, like I'm too good for this person or that person.

I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.