Quotes on Reputation

I am better than my reputation

Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

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.

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.

Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore they no longer need to waste their efforts in defending them.

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock; and he should endeavour to show in his actions greatness, courage, gravity, and fortitude; and in his private dealings with his subjects let him show that his judgments are irrevocable, and maintain himself in such reputation that no one can hope either to deceive him or to get round him.

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

If you believe in others and give them a positive reputation to uphold, you can help them to become better than they think they are.

When you have a reputation for making not only good songs but great albums, that in itself creates added artistic pressure. But, at the end of the day, I guess that pressure is something I welcome.

My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.

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

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character is what you really are

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-" "She's foul enough to be one..." "Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.