Quotes About Reputation

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.'

Men will judge your past deeds by your last.

Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.

The most important thing is just to be recognised as a legend, like the people call me. To have that title attached to your name, you've got to be a bad man. It's an honour to have that role.

I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me.

The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.

Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.

Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.