Reputation Quotes

Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.Focus on your character, not your reputation.Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes.

~ Roy T. Bennett

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If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other.

~ Epictetus

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism (as the time of Augustus Cæsar) were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

~ Francis Bacon

Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.

~ Indonesia123

Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be naysayers who will try to convince you otherwise. Perhaps this woman did not give them something for free, or at a discount. Perhaps too, that she refused to stand with them when they were wrong — or just stood up for something she felt was right. And also, it could be that some bitter women are envious of her, or that she rejected the advances of some very proud men. Always trust your heart. If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to her.

~ Suzy Kassem

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

~ George Eliot

It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradiction, to be misjudged by men even though we do well and mean well. These things help us to be humble and shield us from vainglory. When to all outward appearances men give us no credit, when they do not think well of us, then we are more inclined to seek God Who sees our hearts. Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

~ Thomas À Kempis

There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.

~ Dru Pagliassotti

The evil that men do lives after them,The good is oft interred with their bones.

~ William Shakespeare

Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.

~ Jude Morgan

Reputation is what men and women think of us, character is how we let them really know us.

~ Carl R White

A poet could kill the dead.

~ Cameron Conaway

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

~ Washington Irving

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

~ Socrates

Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.

~ Indonesia123

It is not reputation, fame, success or religiosity that glorifies God, it's slavery.

~ Indonesia123

Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.

~ Rob Liano

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

~ Henry Ford

Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

~ Liz Smith

You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.

~ Jefferson Smith

Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction!Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.

~ Tom Stoppard

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.

~ Indonesia123

Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is tetelestai. Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.

~ Indonesia123

Whatever we have in the glory of man is away. Those are just not enough before we go home to the glory of God.

~ Indonesia123

Yesterday I was clever, so I took the glory for me. Today He makes me wise, so I give the glory to Thee

~ Indonesia123

If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God.

~ Indonesia123

If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody knows that but you.

~ John Wooden

As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound. There is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

~ William Shakespeare

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

~ Margaret Mitchell

A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false.

~ Criss Jami

Decisions of character come from understanding that they are accountable to God only, not to family, spouses, religious leaders, corporations, public opinion or your own ego.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay.

~ Liezi

Then, if to make your ruin more,You'll peevishly be coy,Die with the scandal of a whoreAnd never know the joy.

~ John Wilmot

Girls, watch out for the bad guys!...there are those capable of showering their resources on you just to dance on top of you, and finally destroy your good image and reputation.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It seemed inequitable at best that one could and did gain a reputation for things that left one both physically and emotionally unsatisfied.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls:Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he that filches from me my good nameRobs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.

~ William Shakespeare

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

~ David Mitchell

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