Reputation Quotes

Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife.

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.

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.

All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation's reputation.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.

I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed by Mr. Hoover who had been appointed Director continuously. He had, I would say, a good reputation.

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.

As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.

I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology.

New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.