Quotes About Reputation

Polo, a tireless name-dropper, says he first encountered Prester John by reputation, as the lord of the Tatars

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.

There was a strange kind of magick bias, which good or bad names, as he called them, irresistibly impressed upon our characters and conduct…. How many Caesars and Pompeys, he would say, by mere inspiration of the names, have been rendered worthy of them?

Sometimes it's easier to be as bad as they expect you to be.

I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

A community is known by the schools it keeps.

A man's character, she reflected with surprise, consists a good deal more of the way people feel and behave towards him than of the way he himself feels and behaves.

With credibility comes influence.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence.

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

The world may admire the truth-tellers, but few will want to employ them.

No doubt I was getting a reputation for being efficient, but also for being somebody you could trust.

Prison and the asylums had made me worse, not better. I had truly become a hostage of my past, condemned by my reputation and my fucked-up mind.

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.

Worry more about your conscience than your reputation. Because your conscience is what you are, your reputation is what others think of you. And what others think of you is their problem.

Posthumously, everyone loves us. (A titre posthume, - Tout le monde nous aime.)

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard. So very great is the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow in the course of a night, without any detriment to his reputation as a perfect gentleman, would seem, in these days, a ridiculous exaggeration.