Reputation Quotes · Page 19

It takes years to prove that you are good person, and seconds to destroy that image.

— Anonymous

I don't have a reputation of being a super-witch who demands pink rugs in the dressing room.

— Valerie Harper

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

— Jason Calacanis

Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife.

— John N. Mitchell

Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.

— Billy Joel

I am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honor and reputation.

— Ben Jonson

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

— Mae West

Do not be misled by hearing of anyone's reputation.

— Umar

A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of…

— Francis Bacon

I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have

— Russell Brand

My reputation is so overblown. I can count the number of men I've been with on two hands; it just seems like…

— Bebe Buell

If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.

— Xavier Niel

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn,…

— Richard P. Feynman

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

— John C. Maxwell

Be still: There is no longer any need of comment. It was a lucky wind That blew away his halo with his…

— Thomas Merton

Too many times, people don't try their best. They don't have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it…

— Bobby Fischer

I have invested at least 20 years in business and my own reputation. I'm excited to come into public service, because I…

— Nigel S. Wright

In those days reputation was a big thing. If you could win a game before you went out, win it. That could…

— Tommy Smith

Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing…

— Mary Russell Mitford

Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trespass on that of others, whereas nothing is so…

— Washington Irving

I want to play for a team that has a strong defensive reputation. One that relies on a system and where assists…

— Malcolm Brogdon

The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build…

— Seth Godin

“Before you tell people to check you out with hopes that they will write a check to you for your services… Check…

— Loren Weisman

[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes…

— John Adams

“For your fourth consoling thought, I would point out that in this venue," a wave of his finger took in Vorbarr Sultana,…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct.…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The fact of the matter is, Obama and the Democrats did a number on Mitt Romney's reputation and his character and his…

— Rush Limbaugh

We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity,…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road…

— Lauren Oliver

It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of…

— John Maynard Keynes

The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as…

— Doug Stanhope

Cyprus has a reputation as a laundromat for the Russians who are trying to avoid sanctions.

— Mike Quigley

A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.

— Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

— William Shakespeare

“People will do the basest things on account of their so-called honour.”

— T.H. White

For more than 15 years, Mogwai has built a reputation on its monstrous ambitions for rock music.

— Anthony Fantano

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

— Margo Kingston

To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.

— Mason Cooley

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation

— John Adams