Reputation Quotes

• Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Knowledge
  • Gift
  • Reputation

• To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

  

  Edna Buchanan
  • Daughter
  • Editor
  • Labored

• Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Reputation
  • Avoided
  • Sought

• Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Character
  • Opinion
  • Man's

• Start a personal blog and begin developing a public reputation and public portfolio of work that’s not tied to your employer.

  

  Reid Hoffman
  • Employer
  • Portfolio
  • Blog

• Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Money
  • Society
  • Road

• Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

  

  Euripides
  • Success
  • Wisdom
  • Reputation

• I was always the underdog that everyone identified with, and I still think I'm that way. But if you're on the other side of the fence on a certain issue, your opinion is going to change. And that was the part I was scared of, because I built my reputation on being this guy who's all about football - and I am, and I'm still the same guy, that doesn't change.

  

  Andrew Hawkins
  • Change
  • Football
  • Opinion

• Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough city thing is fine. Its always had a reputation as that. ... You know, Gordie Howe, when I was watching hockey, was the toughest guy in the league playing for the Red Wings. He represented that tough aura.

  

  Eugene Levy
  • City
  • Crime
  • League

• Me? Robin Goodfellow, a family man? He, not likely, ice-boy. I mean, think of what that would do to my reputation. Glamour shimmered around him, and he gave us a wink. Later, lovebirds. Gimme a heads up when the kid arrives. 'Uncle Puck' will be waiting.

  

  Julie Kagawa
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Opinion
  • Understand
  • Reputation

• I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Reputation
  • Straight-talker

• A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Heart
  • Possession
  • Rewards

• Look at the reputation they gave him. Giordano Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Looks
  • Waste
  • Whiskey

• Anna Wintour has a reputation - she can be very intimidating - but that day Valentino show she was just smiling and laughing. That was my first time meeting her, and she seemed like she was having a great time. Everybody was enjoying themselves.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Laughing
  • Enjoyment
  • Intimidating

• If you have a live reputation and your popularity is proven that way, then you're bound to get signed up because they see all those people buying those tickets and they think some of those people will buy those records, and that's what their business is primarily about.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Business
  • Records
  • Popularity

• A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Reputation
  • Remains
  • Noise

• Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Time
  • Great
  • Conscious

• Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.

  

  Raymond Burr
  • Opinion
  • Reputation
  • Painful

• “I have never known a great trader, with his first reputation established as a bear operator, who did not either turn bull or drop out of the market altogether.”

  

  William Peter Hamilton
  • Reputation
  • Operator
  • Trader

• Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.

  

  Thomas Dewar
  • Soul
  • Reputation
  • Confession

• We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Rest
  • Dark
  • Reputation

• I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Film
  • Speak
  • Successful

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