All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation's reputation.
~By Ramman Kenoun ~
A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation.
~By James Atlas ~
Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
~By Elizabeth Arden ~
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.
~By Henry Walter Bates ~
New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.
~By Jane Pauley ~
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.
~By Charles Simmons ~
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 ~
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 ~
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
~By Epicurus ~
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
~By John Zimmerman ~
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
~By John Ruskin ~
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
~By Epictetus ~
There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.
~By Brian Koslow ~
I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.
~By Hugh Grant ~
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
~By Pliny the Elder ~
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 ~
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
~By Nathaniel Branden ~
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
~By Josh Billings ~
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 ~
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
~By Margaret Mitchell ~
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 ~
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 ~
No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
~By Helen Rowland ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
~By Mason Cooley ~
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
~By Margaret Mitchell ~
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
~By Petrarch ~
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 ~
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.
~By John Sherman Cooper ~
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 ~
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 ~
That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.
~By David Douglass ~
If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
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 ~
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
~By Voltaire ~
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
~By Ben Jonson ~
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.
~By Bill Toomey ~
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
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 ~
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
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 ~
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
~By John D. Rockefeller ~
Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By John Wooden ~
I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.
~By King Hussein I ~
I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
~By Ernest Bramah ~
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 ~
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
~By Thomas Paine ~
It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
~By Matthew Hale ~
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.
~By Henry Anatole Grunwald ~
It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.
~By Anthony Holden ~
I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.
~By Calvin Klein ~
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
~By Henry Ford ~
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
~By Robert Benchley ~
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 ~
Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.
~By Sophia Bush ~
If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.
~By Gouverneur Morris ~
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
~By Dwight L. Moody ~
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 ~
I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after my reputation.
~By Katie Price ~
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
~By Mencius ~
And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
~By George William Curtis ~
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.
~By Terry Gilliam ~
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 ~
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
~By Myrtle Reed ~
Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife.
~By John N. Mitchell ~
Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
~By Liz Smith ~
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
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 ~
I am better than my reputation.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
~By Flavius Josephus ~
Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.
~By Peter Benchley ~
These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation.
~By Dick Durbin ~
At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
~By Alexander Pope ~
In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it.
~By Isabella Rossellini ~
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 ~
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.
~By Eli Whitney ~
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 ~
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.
~By Millicent Fawcett ~
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 ~
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.
~By Jo Ann Emerson ~
Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.
~By Rupert Murdoch ~
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