Reputation Quotes - page 3

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic. (Henry James)
I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations. View quote
Aristotle Onassis
Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions. (1). View quote
Epictetus
In the early days of the crash it was widely believed that Jesse L. Livermore, a Bostonian with a large and unquestionably exaggerated reputation for bear operations, leading a syndicate that was driving the market down. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
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. View quote
Billy Joel
No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be. View quote
Christopher Vokes
Viewers have a way of remembering the celebrity while forgetting the product. I did not know this when I paid Eleanor Roosevelt $35,000 to make a commercial for margarine. She reported that her mail was equally divided. "One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation." View quote
David Ogilvy
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. View quote
Kim Novak
I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation. View quote
Ingvar Kamprad
Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness. (Orson Scott Card)
There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with. View quote
George Washington
And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation. View quote
Margaret Cavendish
One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating. View quote
Martin Amis
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. View quote
Jeff Bezos
Chastity. Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. (Benjamin Franklin)
Work is the price which is paid for reputation. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation. View quote
Kenneth Clark
How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation! View quote
Michel de Montaigne
You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you can avoid the mistake of those who meet with an extraordinary piece of good fortune, and are led on by hope to grasp continually at something further, through having already succeeded without expecting it. View quote
Thucydides