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Quotes About Reputation

As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound. There is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.
~ William Shakespeare
Soft you; a word or two before you go. I have done the state some service, and they know't.— No more of that.—I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely, but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but
~ William Shakespeare
If I lose my honor, I lose myself.
~ William Shakespeare
Great Timon, noble, worthy, royal Timon! Ah, when the means are gone that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made: Feast-won, fast-lost; one cloud of winter showers, These flies are couch'd.
~ William Shakespeare
good alone Is good without a name, vileness is so
~ William Shakespeare
Truth sometimes does not matter, Quinn. There are those who have decided what they think your brother is, and nothing will persuade them differently, truth be damned.
~ William W. Johnstone
A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
~ William Wycherley
Las personas que triunfan a largo plazo son aquellas que tienen una actitud positiva y que han creado una reputación de excelencia
~ Willie Jolley
posicionamiento", un concepto popular que se utiliza para indicar cómo debe ubicarse la gente en la mente de otros
~ Willie Jolley
son aquellas que tienen una actitud positiva y que han creado una reputación de excelencia
~ Willie Jolley
Of course he'll bring no money. Nor never will. He's not the type to--accumulate. But it's a good name to have. And he's becoming a personality in the county. One never knows quite why this happens, eh? Not so much what a man does. More a matter of character.
~ Winston Graham
A man will perhaps tolerate an offensive word applied to himself, but will be infuriated if his nation, his rank, or his profession is insulted.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Little did I know—once smeared, always vulnerable.
~ Woody Allen
To quote the usually reasonable and level-headed New York Times, I was "a monster." Somewhere, Kafka was smiling.
~ Woody Allen
He was astonished likewise that they did not see it was impossible for men to comprehend anything of all those wonders, seeing they who have the reputation of being most knowing in them are of quite different opinions, and can agree no better than so many fools and madmen;
~ Xenophon
Catholics have a reputation for severity, for judgment that comes down heavily.
~ Yann Martel
I knew very little about the religion. [Christianity] It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools.
~ Yann Martel
The attacks will stop when the department states the truth about my innocence, PUBLICLY!!! I will not accept any type of currency/goods in exchange for the attacks to stop, nor do i want it. I want my name back, period.
~ Unknown
Honour to Agamemnon is a thing / That he can pick, pick up, put back, pick up again, / A somesuch you might find beneath your bed.
~ Unknown
Reputations are created every day and every minute.
~ Unknown
I had learned very early that not getting caught was just about the solution to every problem. If you were caught then those who hadn't yet been caught had to make an example of you, unless of course you knew the right people.
~ Unknown
My hair was famous before I was.
~ Christopher Walken
You couldn't keep your mouth shut? I'm calling you Glitterhair from now on. Or Talksalot.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
The eminent virtue of calumny is that it produces a vacuum around you without your having to raise a finger.
~ Cioran