Reputation Quotes

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.

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.

I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist.

I don't consider myself a martial-arts star. I'd be offended and disappointed if I got a reputation as a martial-arts star.

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.

As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation.

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

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

I know for me like I have a reputation of being kind of tough, I have a reputation of also being the girl next door, kind of sweet but I have standards and my thing is, it's me on that screen and I don't have control over everything in this and I'm grateful and thankful.