Quotes About Reputation

The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

The purest treasure mortal times affordIs spotless reputation.

I have boughtGolden opinions from all sorts of people.

For new-made honor doth forget men's names.

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O! I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.

They are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

I do know of these,That therefore only are reputed wiseFor saying nothing.

For slander lives upon succession,Forever housed where it gets possession.

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd,When not to be receives reproach of being.

Though it be honest, it is never goodTo bring bad news.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen 'Hey, you'

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character to another.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Try not to screw up. This will satisfy a few people, and amaze everybody else.

Truth is like the town whore. Everybody knows her, but nonetheless, it's embarrassing to meet her on the street.

Year by year, as his reputation grew beyond Englewood, it became clearer to him that coaching was his life's calling. Football coach was not what Harry and Matty had expected of their son, nor what his old classmates had predicted. In some ways it was a job below his own self-image. All of which worked in his favor. During his years in Englewood, Lombardi was driven by a contradiction, consumed by a sport and somewhat embarrassed that it was considered merely a game.

Professionally, Hearst is a form of poison. Politically, he has degenerated into a form of suicide. Whoever ties up with him begins to smell lilies and attract the undertaker.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.