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Quotes About Reputation

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?
~ George Washington
Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.
~ Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
Ric Flair, you put me in this position. You named me the Legend Killer and after Tuesday, you will respect me.
~ Randy Orton
You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.
~ Adelaide Kane
The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do.
~ Henry Ford
It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
~ Alfred Nobel
It can take years to earn respect, but it only takes one day to lose it.
~ Giancarlo Stanton
How I wish the mass media had christened me Joe instead of Joey. I hate Joey, not going to lie. Nobody I respect calls me it.
~ Joey Barton
If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you're talking about.
~ Jeff Goldblum
The community owes us nothing. It's up to us to go out and earn their respect.
~ Jerry Colangelo
When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.
~ Colin Meloy
Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.
~ Patti Smith
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
~ Oscar Wilde
When I play against someone that's new in the league, I make him respect me. They may have heard about me, but now you get to see me actually in front of you. That drives me.
~ Michael Jordan
We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.
~ Nicolas Malebranche
He does not seek glory - yet people respect him.
~ Laozi
Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.
~ Blaise Pascal
I just want to be as regular, and get by with doing the least amount of publicity, but still look really cool, you know? And get a bit of respect.
~ Chrissie Hynde
I would like to walk in a room and people know who I am and be like, "Oh, I respect his opinion."
~ Iman Shumpert
There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.
~ Joe Biden
If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself.
~ Jeremy London
PowerPoint is the Rodney Dangerfield of software. It gets no respect.
~ Ken Goldberg
To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.
~ Mary McCarthy