Reputation Quotes - Page 16

Be more interested in character than reputation

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.

I've been in this biz so long, it's really my reputation that brings me work.

It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincolns single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.

That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.

I don't do normal. I have a reputation to uphold. (Thwonk)

I had such a reputation, and it was sad because I felt like it so didn't represent who I really was.

It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

It takes ten times longer to get rid of your reputation than it does to make it.

If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.

Especially being a woman of color, sometimes it's hard for to put our foot down. You work with a lot of men, and they'll be like, "She has Joyner the best reputation".

For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.

On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

I haven't got a good reputation with pain.

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.

Once your reputation's done/ You can live a life of fun

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.

Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.

I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful and honest. And I think that's been a thorn in my side.