Reputation Quotes
1049 Reputation quotes by 771 unique authors
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock;…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful…
— Patrick Lencioni
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
— John Wooden
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We build character in order for us to withstand the rigors of combat and resist the temptations to compromise our principles in peacetime. We must…
— Glen E. Morrell
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The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible.
— George S. Patton
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The Marines fought almost solely on esprit de corps, I was certain. It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let another Marine down,…
— Robert Sherrod
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Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and…
— John F. Kerry
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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
— H. L. Mencken
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Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
— Madeleine Albright
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I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after…
— Katie Price
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The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm…
— George S. Patton
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I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.
— Brian Clough
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There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are…
— Joseph Addison
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Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as strength,…
— Sissela Bok
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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
— Mencius
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He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.
— Thomas Paine
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
— John Milton
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All is Ephemeral, fame and the famous as well.
— Marcus Aurelius
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
— Martial
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Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.
— Samuel Johnson
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He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.
— William Shakespeare
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Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.
— Lord Chesterfield
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
— Lord Byron
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A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.
— Winston Churchill
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