Best Reputation Quotes

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.

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

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.

I really like Barack Obama. I think that he’s working very hard. He’s trying to rebuild our reputation throughout the world. The previous administration was a total disaster, a total catastrophe. He was handed a pretty bad deck of cards. And I’m not saying I agree with everything he’s doing. He’s a champion. I mean, he won against all odds. When he first announced, people were giving him virtually no chance. And he’s just done something that’s amazing.

Our reputations precedes us. If I know someone is not nice, not kind, an asshole – I generally don’t want to work with them.

The greatest powers cannot injure a man’s character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

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

I don’t understand how the Republican party is the party with the reputation for fiscal conservatism and fiscal sanity, when they’re the ones who run up the debt. It was Reagan who ran up the debt and now Bush is doing it again, and in between, Clinton and Bush’s father, I must say, worked so hard to get that deficit and that debt down.

The right thing to do is to thank them for their work, let people know that they’re moving on, and … you don’t really have to explain all their personal details. It’s more important to leave them with their dignity… and let them go on to live another day. Remember, what you say at that meeting, that’s their reputation.

If one’s reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.

You’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright; Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies’ man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation!

He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.

A good reputation is better than fame.

I’ve got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it’s hard to live up to.

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.

A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets.

The vulgar look upon a man, who is reckoned a fine speaker, as a phenomenon, a supernatural being, and endowed with some peculiargift of Heaven; they stare at him, if he walks in the park, and cry, that is he. You will, I am sure, view him in a juster light, and nulla formidine. You will consider him only as a man of good sense, who adorns common thoughts with the graces of elocution, and the elegancy of style. The miracle will then cease.

I come across famous people all the time. It’s the respect factor I appreciate. They respect me, they respect what I’ve achieved and the manner I’ve done it. It’s street credibility. They know where I’m coming from, they know my reputation.

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.

Switching over to a hybrid car is one of those right things, but, unfairly or not, it still has a reputation among car enthusiasts as something you have to pedal really fast when you’re on the ramp merging into traffic on the 401.

Some of us are more concerned with our reputation than our character. The latter takes care of the former.

Sometimes the image of the intellectual boxer did for me more harm than good. If a boxer has a reputation as an intellectual, some people no longer respect him as a fighter. With me it was always ?Lennox should react, not think?. But that?s nonsense. Only the guy who controls his opponent wins.

I took anything that came across my doorstep. I started getting a reputation.

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.

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.