Quotes About Reputation

The pettiest will be generous And the most craven will be brave: Nothing improves a reputation Like confinement to a grave.

The British are entitled always to mistrust other people but others are not entitled to mistrust the British. That is why England is known or was known abroad as 'Perfide Albion', because the British have two standards, one for themselves and one for other people.

It's hardly matters whether it's true or false. The point is the slander. People love scandal

Rumors are as important as anything. Even if they're not true, they end up turning people into who they are.

Finish last in your league and they call you Idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you Doctor.

Reputation is like fine china once broken it's very hard to repair.

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.

What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige

The valley below, the rock underfoot, and the mountain before him will outlast him. On the scale of this land, he is nothing; words like "shame" and "guilt" mean little here; and a reputation is no more than a fleeting blue flame, an evanescent spirit in a brandy glass.

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

How could you build a reputation in an environment where the only people who got names were the interns and the sad old retirees who clamber in to relive the glory days? While

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

I'm not saying I'm a family guy, but maybe that's what people see in me: some kind of paternal quality.

I've always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that's the way things are.

Who is going to take business advice from Paul Ryan? Who? Nobody. Nobody.

There's a herd instinct, and every time that people hear an announcement such as PayPal's in Dundalk, they start thinking, 'Ireland must be good if they're investing there', and by extension, 'Dundalk must be good, so let's have a look at it.'

You want to be respected by your bosses and peers.

I've never made an All-Star Game, but I've always had my peers' and coaches' respect around the league.

The respect from your peers - I don't know if it's because I grew up in the business, I don't know if that's why - but to me, that became the biggest thing.