Quotes About Reputation

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all.

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

James T Kirk: Mr.Scott. Have you always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of four? Montgomery Scott: Certainly, Sir. How else can I keep my reputation as a miracle worker?

a frantic stream of words flows from us because we are in a constant process of adjusting our public image. we fear so deeply what we think, other people see in us that we talk in order to straighten out their understanding..... one of the fruits of silence (or keeping your mouth shut) is the freedom to let God be our justifier. we don't need to straighten out others. when we can allow God to justify and set things right, that brings us to believe that God can care for us-reputation and all

But I know that any man whose very presence incites me to nearly throw away my reputation-or whatever shreds of it remain-is someone I must avoid at any cost.

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

The problem with success, even a little success, is that it changes you. You are no longer walking along the same precipice that drove you to do great work in the first place. Now you have something to defend: a reputation, money in the bank, a brand, real customer expectations. Success can take the edge away.

The conservatives had started bringing demagoguery to the table on the [Afghan] war issue the previous fall [fall 2006]. Whenever opposition members criticized the war policy, assorted Tories accused them of being disloyal and of failing to support the troops....[Harper] was gaining the reputation of a leader who couldn't see a belt without wanting to hit below it.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

Have not women preferred hatred to indifference, and the reputation of witchcraft, with all its penalties, to absolute insignificance?

It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.

Of course not. It's all on you. I'm the fat old guy who has been here for decades, proven he's a stand-up guy, and is on his way out. I'm blameless. You're the young, attractive publicity whore who doesn't care how many careers you have to ruin, or deputies you have to kill, to get to the top." "My God, is that what people are actually saying?

He who worries about reputation, Has a reputation to worry about.

What do the British care about Churchill's reputation; they have history books full of such men. Democracy is the fabric from which their society is woven.

If there was a level of hell filled with slutty women who made stupid mistakes, she would be their queen.

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.

Beck had a reputation as a loose cannon even before he discovered the tumor. He was impatient with theories and studies. He wanted to use whatever worked.

It was among the knowledgeable others that one hoped to be talked about and admired. It was not impossible—the world of squadrons is small. The years would bow to you; you would be remembered, your name like a thoroughbred's, a horse that ran and won.

No one accused Frederick James Furnivall of averageness, and his career highlights the ups and downs of editorial scholarship. As eccentric as he was energetic, a Christian socialist turned agnostic, Furnivall gained a reputation for hot pink neckties, sculling on the Thames with shopgirls, and hours toiling over manuscripts in the British Museum.

Furthermore, when someone dies, why do they become a saint and suddenly blameless? Because no one wants to hear what he was really like," she said, answering her own question.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.