Quotes About Reputation

Man is remembered by his deeds.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.

No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.

Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.

Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

A man is known by the company he owns.

All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.

I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.