Quotes on Reputation

Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for.

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.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Scientists tend to build a reputation on refuting the theories of those who have gone before. Yet, whatever we hypothesize, observe, measure or record about the natural world, it leaves more unanswered questions.

The reputation of power IS power.

I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

Could you imagine if the U.N. had endorsed the war in Iraq, what our reputation would be like?

Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

I had made my reputation on integrity.

I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.

I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality.

When it comes to building your business and developing a powerful network, you'll want to develop a reputation as someone who highlights others. Not only does this give credit where credit is due, it also communicates that you're secure with your success and have the ability to promote others in your industry.

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

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.

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any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.

"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.