Reputation Quotes
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I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
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Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.
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Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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I am better than my reputation.
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It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.
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Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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I would be lying if I said Starz doesn't have a reputation.
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.
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Colonel Roosevelt liked the song of the blackbird so much that he was almost indignant that he had not heard more of its reputation before. He said everybody talked about the song of the thrush; it had a great reputation, but the song of the blackbird, though less often mentioned, was much better than that of the thrush. He wanted to know the reason of this injustice and kept asking the question of himself and me. At last he suggested that the name of the bird must have injured its reputation. I suppose the real reason is that the thrush sings for a longer period of the year than the blackbird and is a more obtrusive singer, and that so few people have sufficient feeling about bird songs to care to discriminate.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
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Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
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In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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My dear, dear Lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loan or painted clay... Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.
