Quotes About Reputation

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.

You cannot build God's reputation if you aren't willing to risk yours.

When we violate our conscience by compromising our integrity, we put our reputation at risk. We also become our own advocate because we step outside the boundaries of God's good, pleasing, and perfect will. But when we obey God, we come under the umbrella of His protective authority. He is our Advocate. And it's His reputation that is at stake. If we don't give the Enemy a foothold, God won't let him touch a hair on our head.

It's not my name that's at stake.

No puedes edificar la reputación de Dios si no estás dispuesto a arriesgar la tuya.

success is when those who know you best respect you most.

Senior faculty nowadays similarly squirm when former 'dunderheads' return to campus to lecture on their prizewinning screenplay or to cut the ribbon for a building funded by their entrepreneurial acumen. How did such dullards metamorphose into geniuses?

God created the church, we have said, so that it might increasingly reflect the character of God as it's been revealed in his Word. In keeping with the storyline of the entire Bible, then, church discipline is the act of excluding an individual who carelessly brings disrepute onto the gospel and shows no commitment to doing otherwise.

Prophets are not honored in their own land or in their own time either. The future bears them out—or it does not.

To succeed in your career, it's less important what you know or even who you know than who truly knows you and how they know you. —IVAN MISNER, FOUNDER, BNI

You're Known by the Office Company You Keep

Mohandas's marriage, which was arranged when he was thirteen, lasted for the next sixty-two years. Despite his enduring reputation for living a life of simplicity and self-denial, he did not come to this easily and struggled in his youth with uncontrolled appetites, both sexual and gastronomic. In violation of his family's religious code, he experimented with meat eating, hoping it would make him large and strong like the carnivorous English.

the organization is shaped by the expectations of others when those others have particular images of the organization.

The life cycle of public disgrace has been condensed to where the actual offense gets washed away, leaving just a neutral sheen of notoriety.

Phaedrus: 'They will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome, having the reputation of knowledge without the reality?' "6

"Classic": A book which people praise but don't read.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

A company is known by the people it keeps.

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.

99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.