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Quotes About Reputation

Chrysler builds great cars.
~ Lee Iacocca
American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.
~ Corey Clark
I doubt anybody gets taken seriously for very long. I'll be on some reality show in about six years going, Hey, I had a great year in 2006.
~ George Clooney
If you do a great job in one thing, people look at you that way and it's hard to break out of that.
~ Harry Hamlin
Somebody said to me, 'Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.' That's a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.
~ Clarence Clemons
I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.
~ Aristotle Onassis
Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.
~ Miles Franklin
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
~ John Lennon
HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.
~ Richard Russo
We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.
~ Hermann Goring
You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.
~ Al Davis
All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Historians are gossips who tease the dead
~ Voltaire
If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.
~ Eoin Colfer
Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.
~ Will Rogers
Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
~ Paul Simon
I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.
~ C. L. R. James
Today's headlines and history's judgement are not the same.
~ Condoleezza Rice
I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie.
~ Chris Osgood
A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.
~ Peter O'Toole
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
~ Samuel Johnson
A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.
~ Richard Pryor