Quotes About Reputation

You don't have to disprove someone's claim if you can discredit the person saying it.

spread the rumor and, before anyone knows, it's a fact

The prospect of sitting across the table from Caleb Halliday, knowing he thought she was a trollop, was patently unappealing. Besides, one had to take a personality as strong as Caleb's in small, measured doses. Like castor oil.

For an elder must be a man whose life cannot be spoken against. He must be faithful to his wife. He must exhibit self-control, live wisely, and have a good reputation. He must enjoy having guests in his home and must be able to teach. He must not be a heavy drinker or be violent. He must be gentle, peace loving, and not one who loves money. He must manage his own family well, with children who respect and obey him. (1 Timothy 3:2-4 NLT)

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

Society is going to judge you no matter what you do.

I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have

Good reputation and growth doesn´t mean to God that the church is alive.

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

I'm a legend in this sport. If you don't believe me, ask me

The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league level.

On coaching the 1970s Philadelphia Flyers: Nobody likes us. Nobody outside Philadelphia, that is. In fact, the nicest thing people say about us is that we are a bunch of muggers.

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.

You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is, or at least what they say they think one is.

Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.

By such methods, the A?A? intends to make occult science as systematic and scientific as chemistry; to rescue it from the ill repute which, thanks both to the ignorant and dishonest quacks that have prostituted its name, and to the fanatical and narrow-minded enthusiasts that have turned it into a fetish, has made it an object of aversion to those very minds whose enthusiasm and integrity make them most in needs of its benefits, and most fit to obtain them.

It was all a question of face, she decided: you had to leave room for face to be saved.