Quotes About Reputation

A man will be known by his books.

have wanted to fight so well that I will be immortalized in poetry and song. I have wanted to fight so well that an epic poet will come along and create a poem about me that will be sung forever. That way, I will have undying kleos. People will remember my name after I am dead. I will have reputation and fame. I want to be remembered after my death. I want my name to live on after I die. I want to be remembered as a great warrior who slaughtered many other warriors.

MacLeod had a bankroll, a good-looking brunette wife, and a weakness for blondes. He was reputed to be one of the best tax men in San Francisco, and people

In order to build a good reputation, you have to view your own actions in the same way that the people judging you will view them.

Keep your personal life private. Take the risk of people not knowing you. Anything you do reveal, trust me, will eventually come back to haunt you.

99% of all lawyers give the rest of them a bad name.

Reconsider the lobster. Lobsters have a very bad reputation among philosophers, who frequently hold them out as examples of purely unthinking, unfeeling creatures. Presumably, this is because lobsters are the only animal most philosophers have killed with their own two hands before eating. It's unpleasant to throw a struggling creature in a pot of boiling water; one needs to be able to tell oneself that the lobster isn't really feeling it.

it's quite possible to turn honor into money, almost impossible to convert money into honor.76

Being well known for being well-known did not necessarily imply intelligence.

He wanted to be respectable rather than powerful; he did not want the controversy that went with power.

Young man, Mr. Aubrey has made us so rich that we can now afford to worry about our image.

Honor is a contagion deep as fear

name's Ma Daiyu. I'm sure she's heard

I overhear the Manyuema telling each other that I am the "good one." I have no slaves, and I owe this character to the propagation of a good name by the slaves of Zanzibar, who are anything but good themselves. I

If people with good reputations are a resource for whom others compete, this leads to all the dirty tricks that people use against one another when they are competing for something of value. One such move is to "poison the well," to destroy the perceived value of the resource. When the resource is a person's reputation, some individuals will spread malicious gossip to destroy or damage it (Roland Barthes described this as "murder by language").

The consequences of women's attractiveness for a man's social status are critical. Everyday folklore tells us that our mate is a reflection of ourselves. Men are particularly concerned about status, reputation, and hierarchies because elevated rank has always been an important means of acquiring the resources that make men attractive to women. It is reasonable, therefore, to expect that a man will be concerned about the effect that his mate has on his social status

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

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

In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.

All gods are better than their reputation.

If we would be angry and not sin, we must be angry at nothing but sin; and we should be more jealous for the glory of God than for any interest or reputation of our own.

Keep ambitions high, in front of God and people, Your credibility will be in proportion to your ambitions

The reputation Hillary Clinton had at Wellesley and Yale was, "My God, this woman single-handedly could end up running the world! This is the smartest woman!"

God only knows what else is on the web about me.