Quotes About Reputation

Presentationally, Bill Clinton is a US President to die for. The truth is, far too many have.

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

In truth, a leader should either apologize, mean it and do something about it - or not apologize at all.

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.

Stop telling the truth about my record!

American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.

When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.

Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought.

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

People with disabilities are sometimes very humble and approachable, if you want a seasoned reputation, then behave like one of the handicaps.

A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.

If you tell me the truth, the truth I'll proclaim.If you tell me a lie, you'll be fair game.

In] A Song at Twilight... Coward views compassionately a famous writer who, towards the end of his life, is outed by an ex-mistress. [Coward] argues that, by living a lie, the hero has recklessly maimed his talent. It is an Ibsenite theme and a moving coda to Coward's career.

Entertainment has a bad name...The word wears spandex, pasties, a leisure suit studded with blinking lights.

Death is my beat. I make my living from it. I forge my professional reputation on it. I treat it with the passion and precision of an undertaker--somber and sympathetic about it when I'm with the bereaved, a skilled craftsman with it when I'm alone.

In his career, he had chased down hundreds of killers and put them in prison. If he was wrong about one, then it would put the lie to everything else. It would cast him adrift.

The thing to remember is that you don't want clients from the cheap seats. You want the ones sitting on the fifty-yard line.

Animals die, friends die, and I shall die, but one thing never dies, and that is the reputation we leave behind at our death.