Quotes About Reputation

All these years, people have spoken good and bad things about me, but I always end up being discussed.

I like to be spoken about only when I am doing meaningful work.

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

Just build your brand from day one, man. Your brand is your name, basically. A lot of people don't know that they need to build their brand, your brand is what keeps you moving.

Young man, make your name worth something.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is.

I don't need to tell you that, what determines a man's legacy is often what isn't seen.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.

Honour is that which no man can give you and no man can take away.

As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin to assassinate my character, thats impossible. You talkin about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.

If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.

A quarrelsome man deserves no honors.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.

My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.