May Quote by Ernest Bramah Download Open image “A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.” — Ernest Bramah ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare May Reputation Single moment Thousand Thousand years Time Years
It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns. — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
It takes 5 years to build a reputation and only 5 minutes to destroy one, if you would have known would you have done things differently? — Alex Grenier Copy Share Image
A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history. — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
It Takes A Long Time To build Up A Good Reputation Which Can Be easily Destroyed By Misconduct. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
“There is a time to silence an adversary with the honey of logical persuasion, and there is a time to silence him with the… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
“The inimitable stories of Tong-King never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elevated style, has even less end than most of them. But the whole narrative is permeated with the odour of joss-sticks and honourable high-mindedness, and the two characters are both of noble birth.” — Ernest Bramah Copy Share
The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place. — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet. — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses. — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has set before us is not to see if we can endure difficulty. It is to see if we can endure it well. We pass the test by showing that we remembered Him and the commandments He… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a grip on this town. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. But you must stop being so pessimistic, Hannah, and learn… — Jay Asher Copy Share
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to volunteer the story, she realized, and she could just as easily choose to say nothing. But he deserved to know. They all deserved it, and Kirra already knew it, and Cammon may have guessed it, because… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
