Reputation Quotes

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.

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

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

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation.

Because of the incredible reputation I have, people find me exciting to watch on film.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.

I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.

That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!

I am better than my reputation.

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

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.

The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down.

They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.