Quotes About Reputation

None on the Court be well disposed to the hearing of reason,I'm afraid. They are gripped with fear for their own reputations.

What saves doctors' reputations is the fact that many illnesses are benign and that people can go on living with a large number of others, the so-called chronic ones, which destroy only slowly.

They didn't put a scarlet letter on her chest, but they didn't need to. That's what the Internet is for.

An "online presence" is "all the true things and all the lies about a person on the Internet.

Caldwell is the most expensive date in town," he quoted the other boys as saying. "She'll drink you under the table and she'll never put out.

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

Not worth his salt.

Reputation was everything in the Old South. The opinion of others was a measure of inner worth. Virtue, honor, valor, and respect simply did not exist apart from the view of a man in the minds of other men.

H]e cannot be drunken or dirty; the slightest dubiousness is quick to exile him to the police force, journalism, the oyster boats or some other Siberia of the broken.

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

And that, my friend, is why Brendan Fraser sucks.

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.

In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.

Actions speak louder than words ever thought to, but patterns define you...

Sometimes you have to tell the truth about some of the stuff you've done so that people will believe you when you tell them the truth about other stuff you haven't done.

You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too.

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

During the Shadows' five-minute break I was introduced to their front man, Steve Van Zandt. The Castiles by now had a significant reputation, so he knew who I was; we talked a little shop, we hit it off and he went back on for his next set. So began one of the longest and greatest friendships of my life.

people don't choose what you do; they choose who you are. In

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.

There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards.