Reputation Quotes · Page 7

I have a bad reputation, I guess.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

His reputation preceded him before he got here.

— Don Mattingly

At every word a reputation dies.

— Alexander Pope

Don’t wreck my reputation / Let me wreck my own

— Kacey Musgraves

Your reputation is none of your business.

— Wayne Dyer

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

— Winston Churchill

Once you lose your reputation, you don't mind it.

— Belva Porter

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

— Thomas Paine

I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.

— John Kennedy

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

— Leo Rosten

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

— Anonymous

It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

— Socrates

Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.

— Robert Bresson

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation

— John Adams

I believe I can steal Fairfax's reputation in six months. It is an empty edifice. It has collapsed.

— Margo Kingston

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

— Samuel Johnson

I have a reputation that was sort of built on suits and boots, so I'm a huge fan of the sartorial equivalent…

— Nick Wooster

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

— Learned Hand

Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's…

— David Baldacci

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When you see what is happening with the social network, with Facebook, Twitter and co it is becoming obvious that the reputation…

— Emmanuel Petit

Let us be peaceable as near as we can: let us relent of our own right: let us not strive for these…

— John Calvin

“Society's goal is to make us less foolish. From the cradle to grave the pressure is on: "Be normal!" Our inner fool…

— Mark Batterson

Don Rickles and I are best friends. I know that might seem strange to those who know Don only by reputation, but…

— Bob Newhart

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme…

— Baruch Spinoza

People that have integrity violations should be fired, not coached. How many integrity violations does it take to ruin the reputation of…

— Marshall Goldsmith

I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends…

— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr

They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's…

— Daryl Gates

He may be a lot of things, but Donald Trump has not done one thing that detracts from the character or the…

— Rush Limbaugh

“You have a reputation. If enough people tell stories about you, we call it fame; but even if it’s just your neighbors,…

— Anonymous

No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with…

— Samuel Johnson

The newspaper industry when I came along in the mid-70s was rich and powerful and growing and hungry for material and open…

— Dave Barry

He knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that…

— John Todd

Just listen,” she said. “You can’t kill him in cold blood.” “Whyever not?” Ye gods grant me patience. “Because he’ll be dead,”…

— Loretta Chase

For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously;…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard