Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if…

— Anonymous

Louisiana's spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government.

— John Kennedy

she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant

— Dorothy Allison

“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by…

— Marilynne Robinson

I got the reputation of being hard to work with. It has been hard for me to get rid of it.

— Lorrie Morgan

A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is.

— Jack Miner

Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s…

— Chaz Brenchley

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

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Lynne Stewart

I think success is a relative term. If you're a caveman, success is capturing an elephant. Success is achieving better than the norm. Success…

— Jon Taffer

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

— Henry David Thoreau

It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best…

— Jose Saramago

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility,…

— Ursula Burns

I was spoiled and I was arrogant. I was very demanding, had an overblown image of who I was and got a reputation for…

— Judge Reinhold