Reputation famous quotes

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
-- Abraham Cowley

#Age #Reputation

Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Broken #Reputation #China

A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.
-- Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

#Numbers #Reputation #Proof

Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
-- Al Pacino

#Men #Littles #Reputation

Once established, reputations do not easily change.
-- Albert Bandura

#Reputation

Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Hygiene #Feet #Reputation

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
-- Alexander Pope

#Reputation

Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
-- Alexander Smith

#Coffins #Reputation #Melancholy

If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Kindness #Names #Reputation

Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well.
-- Andre Siegfried

#Cynical #Want #Reputation

Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.
-- Andrew Sarris

#Opinion #Reputation #Film

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

#Insulting #Literature #Reputation

I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.
-- Anthony Horowitz

#Thinking #Looks #Reputation

Not necessarily reputation, rank, societal position or status,but the happiness and enjoyment that a person pretends or fakes to derive with his possessed money or wealth or both make largely others jealous and envious of him.
-- Anuj

#Jealous #Fake #Reputation

Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.
-- Aphra Behn

#Return #Reputation

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.
-- Ariel Pink

#Reputation #Evolve #Shows

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.
-- Aristotle Onassis

#People #Reputation #Rich

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.
-- Arnold Bennett

#Faithful #Mars #Reputation

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
-- Baltasar Gracian

#Reputation

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

#Sacrifice #Reputation #Lawyer

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
-- Ben Jonson

#Relax #Ruins #Reputation

He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
-- Ben Jonson

#Reputation

Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.
-- Ben Shahn

#War #Blood #Reputation

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Success #Glasses #Reputation

Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.
-- Bernard Goldberg

#Looks #Reputation #Journalism

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Reputation #Fame #Charm

Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.
-- Brian Tracy

#Self Esteem #Self #Reputation

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.
-- C. L. R. James

#Movement #Reputation #Articles

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
-- Calamity Jane

#Tolls #Littles #Reputation

One of the fruits of longevity is establishing a reputation you may not deserve.
-- Carolyn Hart

#May #Fruit #Reputation

And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.
-- Charles Churchill

#Reputation

Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.
-- Charles Churchill

#Mirth #Reputation #Slander

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
-- Charles de Saint-Evremond

#Reputation #Virtue

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
-- Charles Dudley Warner

#Reputation #Uncertain #Tenure

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

#Thinking #Pressure #Reputation

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

#Men #Shadow #Reputation

Some staff doesn't work well under pressure. So I make sure that my staff is very comfortable. I've got a bad reputation for being quite callous when it comes to culling staff. They are selected personally by me. I socialize with all my staff and they know me well and I consider them friends and we travel overseas together.
-- Charles Teo

#Together #Pressure #Reputation

Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets - and can be lost in a heartbeat.
-- Charlie Munger

#Integrity #Reputation #Remember

Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.
-- Chief Joseph

#Reputation

Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.
-- Chris Murray

#Men #Design #Reputation

In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.
-- Chris Murray

#Doctors #Differences #Reputation

We now have a national reputation for corruption.
-- Chris Redfern

#Reputation #Corruption

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.
-- Christopher Vokes

#Reputation #Perceive

The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.
-- D. A. Carson

#Prayer #Approval #Reputation

Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Giving #Reputation #Fine

But we've got to work. We can't just live on reputations at all - by any means.
-- Dan Gable

#Mean #Reputation #Just Live

Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback.
-- David Baldacci

#Mistake #Gone #Reputation

I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.
-- David Blunkett

#Honesty #Reputation #Honest

Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all the rest of mathematics. In one respect this last point is accurate.
-- David Mumford

#Lasts #Esoteric #Reputation

His reputation preceded him before he got here.
-- Don Mattingly

#Yankees #Reputation #New York Yankees

An alibi is a reason with a bad reputation.
-- Doug Larson

#Reputation #Reason #Bad Reputation

Ultimately as a leader, you're evaluated on how you interact with people. If you do it well, you develop a reputation as effective leader. If you don't, you develop a reputation for being a highly ineffective leader.
-- Douglas Conant

#People #Leader #Reputation

I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.
-- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

#Good Friend #Fascination #Reputation

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#People #Lasts #Reputation

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Men #Knaves #Reputation

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.
-- Eli Whitney

#School #Desire #Reputation

Repetition makes reputation.
-- Elizabeth Arden

#Reputation #Repetition

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

#Suffering #Crowns #Reputation

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
-- Eric Hoffer

#Society #Privilege #Reputation

Privacy is dead. Reputations are dying.
-- Erik Qualman

#Dying #Reputation #Privacy

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist
-- Ethel Merman

#Reputation #Hedonist

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.
-- Euripides

#Toil #Reputation #Fame

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

#Reputation #Failing #Scrutiny

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Gains #Reputation #Strive

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
-- Francis Quarles

#Average #Ears #Reputation

Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Reputation #Ignominy #Disgrace

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Reputation #Quiet #Virtue

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.
-- Frank Dobson

#Important #Reputation #Raises

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.
-- Frank Moore Colby

#Reputation #Fame

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

#Identity #Reputation #Intersections

Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.
-- Frederick Buechner

#Clothes #Storm #Reputation

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Reputation #Easier #Bad Reputation

I am better than my reputation
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Reputation

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

#Bears #Reputation #Worst

I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful and honest. And I think that's been a thorn in my side.
-- Gabrielle Anwar

#Thinking #Sides #Reputation

My reputation grows with every failure.
-- George Bernard Shaw

#Failure #Reputation #Grows

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.
-- George Eliot

#Men #Reputation #Fame

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
-- George Santayana

#Vanity #Reputation #Fame

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

#Powerful #Reputation #Good Reputation

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

#Reputation #Stage

Once your reputation's done/ You can live a life of fun
-- Gregor von Rezzori

#Fun #Done #Reputation

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.
-- Greta Scacchi

#Sexy #Reputation #Being Sexy

Take care of your reputation. It's your most valuable asset.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#Life Lesson #Care #Reputation

New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.
-- Hale Irwin

#Golf #America #Reputation

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.
-- Harold Rosenberg

#Recognition #Reputation #Curator

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

#Reputation #Good Reputation

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved
-- Henry Mayhew

#Girl #Ballet #Reputation

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Character #Reputation #Judgment

I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.
-- Howard Stern

#Successful #Radio #Reputation

For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.
-- Iain Pears

#Blow #Men #Reputation

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

#Pay #Reputation #Obvious

Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation.
-- Isocrates

#Ignorant #Looks #Reputation

A penumbra of sombre dignity has descended over his reputation.
-- James Atlas

#Reputation #Dignity

O reputation! dearer far than life.
-- James Russell Lowell

#Reputation

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

#Talking #Annoyed #Reputation

If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.
-- Janeane Garofalo

#Nice #Reputation #Outspoken

Posterity is always just.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Reputation #Posterity

Reputation is the road to power
-- Jeremy Bentham

#Reputation

I have not a clue why they sent it to me. As far as I know I have not got a reputation as a receiver of stolen goods.
-- Jeremy Paxman

#America #World #Reputation

It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings.
-- Jessica Valenti

#Men #Worry #Reputation