Reputation Quotes - Page 9

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.

I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.

How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

In the early days of the crash it was widely believed that Jesse L. Livermore, a Bostonian with a large and unquestionably exaggerated reputation for bear operations, leading a syndicate that was driving the market down.

I don't believe in destroying GOOD mysteries or adding to BAD reputations.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it.

Posterity is always just.

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is more than a momentary flurry.

SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.

You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.

The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.