Quotes About Reputation

Don't have a reputation for being a nice guy—that won't do you any good Muskie was the best of them all, the absolute best, because nobody wanted to tangle with the guy. You know, why tangle with the guy? Why ruin your day? A bad temper is a very powerful political tool because most people don't like confrontation.

It's not just how many people are feelin' you, it's who is feeling you.

You leave a rumor long enough, give it the right soil, and it'll grow into a fact . . .

Sam faced something he had never conceived of in all his life—the triumph of calumny.

There's five million people a year standing in the spot where we are now simply because this is the most famous painting in the world and therefore you just have to go and see it. Doesn't matter if you're more naturally drawn to landscapes, battle scenes, religious paintings, whatever: you have to go see the Mona Lisa, so it remains the most famous and popular painting in the world by virtue of being the most famous and popular painting in the world.

Each age recreates its own justice system and selects the judges and other personnel to run it. And in each age, the status, reputation, and standing of the judges is reinvented to suite the purposes of the day.

Hitler's ability to keep a secret was unparalleled.

History may have condemned him many times over for being a weak and reactionary tsar, but he was, without doubt, the most exemplary of royal fathers.

The mysterious healer was a strannik – a semi-literate, thirty-seven-year-old lay pilgrim – named Grigory Rasputin, who had been gaining a reputation in St Petersburg as a mystic and healer since his arrival there during Lent 1903.

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

A man generally lives up to what is expected of him.

It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation -- to force the esteem of others -- seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.

Ought I not to have been more careful to win the good opinion of others, more determined to conquer their hostility or indifference? It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation--to force the esteem of others--seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.

Lastly, they must be men of honest report, whose life and sound conversation are by their deeds perfectly tried and sufficiently witnessed of unto the people: and finally, they must be such as bear authority, and not be despised as rascal and vile knaves.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

You don't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do

Non si può costruire una reputazione basata sull'intenzione di fare qualcosa.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.