Quotes About Reputation

The best, in any endeavor, appreciate the fact that your good name is branded onto every piece of work that you release. And they get that you can't put a price tag on people saying superb things about you.

Personal relationships start unraveling, business partnerships begin to fall apart and your credibility decreases as you become known as "a loose cannon." Effective

our most famous universities as esteemed as ever.

The greatest modern philosopher was moved by nothing more than by duty. His life, in consequence, was unremarkable. For Kant, the virtuous man is so much the master of his passions as scarcely to be prompted by them, and so far indifferent to power and reputation as to regard their significance as nothing beside that of duty itself.

Hamilton's relatively short life robbed him not only of any chance for further accomplishment but of the opportunity to mold his historical image.

Thus, Hamilton triumphed posthumously over Burr, converting the latter's victory at Weehawken into his political coup de grâce. Burr's reputation perished along with Hamilton, exactly as Hamilton had anticipated.

If a charge was made often enough, people assumed in the end "that a person so often accused cannot be entirely innocent.

Both Grant and Sherman were damaged souls who would redeem tarnished reputations in the brutal crucible of war.

In the next poem, Hamilton has suddenly metamorphosed into a jaded rake, who begins with a shocking, Swiftian opening line: 'Celia's an artful little slut.

While the folks at home embraced him as an improbable hero, Washington was denigrated in England as a reckless young warrior and in France as an outright assassin. He would have been crestfallen to know that, for some high-ranking folks in London, his behavior only confirmed that

Washington grew as a leader because he engaged in searching self- criticism. "I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors," he once wrote. "The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this, because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults or remove prejudices which are imbibed against him."41 The one thing Washington could not abide was when people published criticisms of him without first giving him a chance to respond privately

when John Rockefeller dies," Archbold said, "the world is going to be surprised to learn what a very great man he has been in every way.

Understandably, the Rockefellers did not wish to broadcast their misfortunes to the world.

Eliza Hamilton was committed to one holy quest above all others: to rescue her husband's historical reputation from the gross slanders that had tarnished it.

The man born without honor placed a premium on maintaining his.

A man of irreproachable integrity, Hamilton severed all outside sources of income while in office, something that neither Washington nor Jefferson nor Madison dared to do.

We were beginning to prosper and I felt very uneasy at my name being linked up with these speculators.

it used its prestige to stretch the limits of acceptable behavior

Rockefeller handled people adroitly and wasn't the cold curmudgeon of later myth.

Whatever his own discomfort, Rockefeller made an excellent impression.

My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.

It is as great an error to speak well of a worthless man as to speak ill of a good man.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.

Harold Brodie is a louse and a lothario who cheats at cards and has a different girl in his rumble seat every week. That coupe of his is pos-i-tute-ly a petting palace. And he's a terrible kisser to boot." Evie's parents stared in stunned silence. "Or so I've heard.