Reputation Quotes

I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.

The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you're portraying that character that he's imagined and millions of readers have pictured.

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

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker.

Please, please, please - I would love to do some comedy. Once you have a reputation for one thing - in my case, crying and dying - you are typecast.

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.

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.

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

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

At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

I did not have a reputation to defend.