Browsing Topic 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.

Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.

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

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.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man’s good name once tainted with just reproach.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.

An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.

Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.

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

Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.

I’m dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation… Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

Once established, reputations do not easily change.

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.

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.

I hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can’t be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing to Jerry Tarkanian only because he has a reputation for giving a second chance to many black athletes other coaches have branded as troublemakers. The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!

If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people’s opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.

In various talk th’ instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable.

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.