Quotes About Reputation

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

Ultimately as a leader, you're evaluated on how you interact with people. If you do it well, you develop a reputation as effective leader. If you don't, you develop a reputation for being a highly ineffective leader.

There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.

There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.

That the Islamic State is guilty of horrific atrocities is common knowledge. But most Americans seem unaware of the human toll of our own actions, the consequences this has for our national security and our reputation, and that, too often, the civilian casualties we cause are the result of avoidable mistakes. This must change.

Some of the things people have said about me, well, they're unbelievable.

Guys like Rogan literally want to ruin my career. That's unbelievably cruel and hurtful, and I never want to be that guy.

The voice I've chosen to turn to is that of NPR. With a reputation for some of the finest journalism in the country, the nonprofit organization is renowned for its unbiased stance - to the point that it's been accused of being both conservative and liberal.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.

There can be no whitewash at the White House.

Normally, I don't recommend me for wedding dresses – they all get a divorce.

Honour may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

Nash was respected but not well liked.

People called her a bitch and a whore.