Affair Quote by John Tillotson Download Open image “In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.” — John Tillotson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affair Power Reality Reputation This world World
Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Ultimately we all only have our reputation, and it is nothing more than a series of small decisions you make every single day. — Doris Burke Copy Share Image
You know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention to it… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world,… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
So that we pursue the happiness of this world just as little Children chase birds, when we think we are come very near it… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter… — Michael Atherton Copy Share Image
