Quotes About Reputation

Lady Constance conveyed the impression that anybody who had the choice between stealing anything from her and stirring up a nest of hornets with a short walking-stick would do well to choose the hornets.

But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is." "Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir." "He's supposed to be one of the best men in London." "I am saying nothing against his moral character, sir.

Roland did not like being thought a worm, but it was infinitely better than being regarded as an interesting case by the house-surgeon of a hospital. He belonged to the school of thought which holds that it is better that people should say of you, There he goes! than that they should say, How peaceful he looks.

Paris Hilton

A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend

Though it had no wide reputation, all manner of people frequented 'The Midnight Bell.' This was in its nature, of course, since it is notorious that all manner of people frequent all manner of public-houses - which in this respect resemble railway stations and mad-houses.

Give them a fine reputation to live up to, and they will make prodigious efforts rather than see you disillusioned.

Give a dog a bad name and you may as well hang him." But give him a good name—and see what happens!

People are so proud of their names that they strive to perpetuate them at any cost.

Once I did bad and that I heard ever, twice I did good, but that I heard never.

PRINCIPLE 5 Let the other person save face.

There is an old saying: 'Give a dog a bad name and you may as well hang him.' But give him a good name – and see what happens!

PRINCIPLE 7 Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.

they also want their names known.

To change somebody's behavior, change the level of respect she receives by giving her a fine reputation to live up to. Act as though the trait you are trying to influence is already one of the person's outstanding characteristics.

In a society where men dominate, where women are just another one of all the planet's resources which are available to them, it is predictable that women should be required to hand over their intellectual valuables and that these should go to replenish and enrich the reputations of men. How else could male supremacy be maintained?

Their desire for such honor was keeping them from believing, because you cannot hold the esteem of others to that degree of importance and at the same time believe that God is who he is. It is not possible. As long as people are hung up on honor from other people—reputation, appearing well—they cannot truly believe and trust God.

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

Despite for a monumental reputation, the Mona Lisa was a mere thirty-one inches by twenty-one inches -- smaller even than the posters of her sold in the Louvre gift shop.

Nuclear had proliferated before it was safe, and there were accidents. Solar had proliferated before it was efficient, and people lost money. Both technologies got bad reputations and withered on the vine.

I don't care what you say about me, just spell my name right!

En política, la percepción lo era todo

If the company has a reputation for offering the most complete, albeit rigorous, training in the world, one will feel cheated by working anywhere else. A corporation cannot develop and sustain this kind of attitude purely through PR.

Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought more wicked than they are.