Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
~By Petrarch ~
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 ~
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 ~
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
~By Josh Billings ~
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 ~
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 ~
I did not have a reputation to defend.
~By Roman Polanski ~
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 ~
Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.
~By Brian Koslow ~
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
~By William Congreve ~
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 ~
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 ~
A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation.
~By James Atlas ~
I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any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 ~
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 ~
There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.
~By Brian Koslow ~
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 ~
My reputation grows with every failure.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
~By Matthew Hale ~
One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.
~By Brian Koslow ~
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 ~
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
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 ~
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 ~
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.
~By Rupert Murdoch ~
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
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 ~
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
~By Nathaniel Branden ~
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
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 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 ~
Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.
~By Jane Alexander ~
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
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 ~
Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
~By Dwight L. Moody ~
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 ~
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 ~
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
~By Ted Kotcheff ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.
~By Ethel Merman ~
My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
~By Stephanie Tubbs Jones ~
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 ~
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.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
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 ~
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 ~
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
~By Ben Jonson ~
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 ~
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
~By Margaret Mitchell ~
I believe that sooner or later we're going to have to deal with Saddam Hussein, because of his general reputation, because of what I'm convinced he's done with regard to terrorism and the support thereof. But I'm not at all sure I believe that it has to be right now.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
~By George Washington ~
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
~By Voltaire ~
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 ~
When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
~By Anthony Holden ~
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.
~By Victor Kiam ~
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 ~
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 ~
Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
~By Liz Smith ~
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 ~
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
~By Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ~
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 ~
Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.
~By Henry Mayhew ~
Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
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 ~
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value. I think that was how we were both, the way we were.
~By Shane Warne ~
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 ~
SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.
~By Graeme Murphy ~
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
~By Susan B. Anthony ~
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
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 ~
I never had that reputation of being not accessible.
~By Lauren Holly ~
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 ~
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 ~
But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
~By Paul Theroux ~
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 ~
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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