Reputation Quotes

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction!Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction a...

True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and abov...

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once ...

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which ...

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Together we would make reputation, we would have men in halls across Britain telling the story of ou...

The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it ...

I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get...

There are instances, indeed, wherein men shew a vanity in resembling a great man in his countenance,...

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Re...

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an establ...

Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

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

My reputation grows with every failure.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone ...

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

The longer you remain in Rome,' said [Cardinal] S.C., ‘the smaller you will find it.

I have never been an eavesdropper, even in childhood. Not from any sense of virtue but because I rea...

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, priso...

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarr...

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to s...

They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him.

Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what peop...

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character,...

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles...

The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing. Like a mynah bird in your hands. slacken your grip...

Proshka was a man of self-esteem. He considered himself a cut above the rest, and had a degree of pe...

You and your husband have, I think, been very fortunate to know so little, by experience, in your ow...

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

People change, though, especially after they are dead.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, w...

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputatio...

I'm a flaming faggot, Irving. I was sure you were on to that. I don't go around waving the flag, of ...

These are treacherous times, and I know how easily perceptions can be twisted by a single word spoke...

All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word.

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fi...

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

People will do the basest things on account of their so-called honor.