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.
~By Thomas Kretschmann ~
It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.
~By Anthony Holden ~
You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.
~By Liz Smith ~
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife.
~By John N. Mitchell ~
I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.
~By C. L. R. James ~
And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
~By Myrtle Reed ~
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
~By Joseph Hall ~
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.
~By Saul Alinsky ~
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
~By Bob Woodward ~
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.
~By Paul Nurse ~
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.
~By James Payn ~
For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.
~By Laurence Housman ~
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.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
~By Dwight L. Moody ~
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
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.
~By Calamity Jane ~
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.
~By Mario Cuomo ~
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
~By Euripides ~
I never had that reputation of being not accessible.
~By Lauren Holly ~
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
~By Mencius ~
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.
~By John George Nicolay ~
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
~By Susan B. Anthony ~
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
~By John Zimmerman ~
I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
~By Elizabeth I ~
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
~By Voltaire ~
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.
~By Sam Houston ~
Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.
~By Henry Mayhew ~
Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
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.
~By Richard Jewell ~
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
~By Jules Renard ~
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.
~By Stockwell Day ~
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.
~By Geraldo Rivera ~
I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.
~By Ingvar Kamprad ~
In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.
~By Brit Hume ~
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
~By Jim Rohn ~
It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'
~By Mikhail Gorbachev ~
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
~By Epicurus ~
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.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
~By Matthew Hale ~
If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.
~By Elvis Costello ~
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
My reputation grows with every failure.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet.
~By Lord Chandos ~
Their families helped them realize that there was more out there for them. These students came to Delaware State because of its inexpensive tuition, closeness to home, and solid reputation.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
~By Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ~
We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination.
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
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.
~By Robert Emmet ~
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
~By Petrarch ~
The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?
~By Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards ~
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.
~By Wietse Venema ~
Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
~By John Wooden ~
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
We are looking for targets that have a tremendous strategic fit for the company. The colleges must have complementary education programs, have an excellent reputation, long operating history and solid regulatory compliance.
~By John Larson ~
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
~By Epictetus ~
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
~By Henry Ford ~
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.
~By Kate Bush ~
And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread. Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future to insure,' couldn't be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.
~By Fred Savage ~
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
~By Samuel Butler ~
It's funny because I think it also goes very well with the show. It has this reputation as being this love city where everyone goes to get married, but when you get there, it's very corny and tacky.
~By Caroline Dhavernas ~
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
~By Margaret Mitchell ~
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.
~By Warren Buffett ~
Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Concealed talent brings no reputation.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
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.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
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.
~By Mike Simpson ~
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.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
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.
~By Daryl Gates ~
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.
~By Cat Stevens ~
Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
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.
~By Peter Singer ~
At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
~By Alexander Pope ~
A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
~By Ernest Bramah ~
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.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
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.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
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.
~By Nia Long ~
Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.
~By William Wycherley ~
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.
~By Christopher Gadsden ~
HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.
~By Richard Russo ~
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
~By Warren Buffett ~
SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.
~By Graeme Murphy ~
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
~By Jeff Bezos ~
It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us.
~By Albert Speer ~
I did not have a reputation to defend.
~By Roman Polanski ~
There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.
~By Brian Koslow ~
Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.
~By Rupert Murdoch ~
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.
~By Kim Novak ~
Back in the day, a pair of tight jeans was enough to earn a girl a bad reputation. Now slutty has gone Main Street.
~By Linda Chavez ~
I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
~By Ted Kotcheff ~
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