Quotes About Reputation

Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

I have to be seen to be believed.

I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.

If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

What you SAY and what you DO are two different things. It's the difference in the two that shows the truth to who you are.

Being unknown for the right reasons is far greater than being famous for the wrong reasons.

Some people use words to reflect who they want to be, but actions always show who they really are.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

In faith I shall overcome my shortcomings, in this age of light I will not hold ill-informed opinions and as I pledge my allegiance to the pillar of human reputation, I will always be there to help my people, open doors to wisdom and guide them through the narrow seemingly channels which hold the pre-libation of our condition and above all God will always be with me.

If you can see how limitless you really can be without lessening someone else's reputation, values or experiences, then step forward into the place you were meant to be.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

You can't cheat the public for long.

Once a cheater, always a repeater.

There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige (defining it as respect or es

You're spreading rumors about me? At least you found a hobby spreading something other than your legs.

Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.

It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.