Reputation Quotes - Page 8

Your reputation is none of your business.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

The Road was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

Excellence means representing the reputation of Christ well. It means doing all things as best as you can...

My reputation has grown slowly.

Our reputations do not come from how we talk about ourselves. Our reputations come from how others talk about us.

My career suffered massively because I had a reputation for being a very tabloid person.

Don't drink alone, Scarlett. People always find out and it ruins your reputation.

I'm not going to be somebody who wants to hold on to my fame for the rest of my life.

If I were worried about my reputation, I wouldn't do anything with start-ups

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.

If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.

Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system's reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.

Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.

A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.

Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!

It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.

No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.

Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman has not subsequently been surpassed, and who is to say his contemporaries were wrong?

All gods are better than their reputation.

When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.

A lot of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance.

He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.