Reputation Quotes

Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?

~ Simone Elkeles

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

~ Joseph Conrad

I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.

~ Leora Tanenbaum

A reputation is like a shadow; it hides when you go to sleep, but always returns with the sun…

~ Nanette L. Avery

I'm a flaming faggot, Irving. I was sure you were on to that. I don't go around waving the flag, of course, and I definitely do not proselytize. Homosexuality is, to me, an inner satisfaction, a pride in a heritage of greatness. To marry a woman would be an inadmissible rejection of my identity.

~ Paddy Chayefsky

Abstaining from sex, hitting the books, and wearing loose-fitting clothes are common ways that girls try to molt their slutty image. But more often their shame leads them to self-destructive behavior. They become willing to do things that they wouldn't have dreamed of doing before they were scandalized because they now feel they have so little to offer. Some girls do drugs or drink to excess in an attempt to blot away their stigma. Others become depressed and anorexic. And others think so little of themselves that they date boys who insult or beat them.

~ Leora Tanenbaum

I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” - Hannah More

~ Karen Swallow Prior

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

~ Edith Wharton

it is not only what we have that enhance our dignity but what we do with what we have also magnifies our reputation to the highest level

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

~ Khaled Hosseini

Many consult their reputation, but few their conscience.

~ Publilius Syrus

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Like spilled water, once a girl's reputation is ruined, it will never come back

~ Azin Sametipour

Gain fame, and the paparazzi or media waits and watches for them to slip, just to shame their name.

~ Anthony Liccione

In this age people have become more loyal and attached to personal brands,individuals than companies, brands. [You get the emotional highs and lows, but real issues overlooked]. In a social media driven world, every piece of content we put out there can make or mar us

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling. Our wondrous technologies might just save us all the personal bother. Kleos is a tweak away.

~ Rebecca Goldstein

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

~ Jeff Bezos

Personal branding is distinctively marketing your uniqueness.

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

I have never been an eavesdropper, even in childhood. Not from any sense of virtue but because I really do not want to know what people think of me or, to be precise, what they say of me - often a different matter. I can usually imagine the unpleasant judgements, for we are what others needs us to be. That is why our reputations change so often and so drastically, reflecting no particular change in us, merely a change in the mood of those who observe us.

~ Gore Vidal

He had acquired a reputation for possessing a noble character, and even for being something of a hero - or, at least, in the assessment of one contemporary commentator, one of those parties who are able to fulfil the public need in the event of genuine heroes being absent or, for any reason, unpalatable.

~ K.j. Bishop

Stop caring what people think about you. People will always have their opinions. Don't worry about it. What you think about you (and what God thinks about you) is all that matters. You can never please everyone, so stop trying so hard to please people.

~ Lisa Bedrick

You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!

~ Mikhail Bulgakov

Don’t rush to rise to fame, lest you will be lashed in shame

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing, not that honor makes them excellent.

~ Thomas Aquinas

Kleos is sometimes translated as acoustic renown the spreading renown you get from people talking about your exploits. It's a bit like having a large Twitter following.

~ Rebecca Goldstein

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

~ John Updike

All you need to be recognized as an authority is to be recognized by a recognized authority

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Don't beg for platforms, build your platform.

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Enter RUMOUR, painted full of ton

~ William Shakespeare

Rumour is a pipeBlown by surmises, jealousies, conjecturesAnd of so easy and so plain a stopThat the blunt monster with uncounted heads,The still-discordant wavering multitude,Can play upon it.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

RUMOUR:Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,The which in every language I pronounce,Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

~ William Shakespeare

These are treacherous times, and I know how easily perceptions can be twisted by a single word spoken into the wrong ear. Impugn a man's character, and everything that man does is made to seem underhanded, suspect, fraught with double motives.

~ Paul Auster

Mud Slinging is so much fun,when you do it to others. But remember the day someone else does the same to you,youll realise how bad the mud in your mouth tastes. Think twice before you go around ruining the reputation of others. Because what goes around comes around for sure.

~ Rachitha Cabral

You and your husband have, I think, been very fortunate to know so little, by experience, in your own case or in that of your friends, of the wicked recklessness with which people repeat things to the disadvantage of others, without a thought as to whether they have grounds for asserting what they say. I have met with a good deal of utter misrepresentation of that kind. And another result of my experience is the conviction that the opinion of people in general is absolutely worthless as a test of right and wrong. The only two tests I now apply to such a question as the having some particular girl-friend as a guest are, first, my own conscience, to settle whether I feel it to be entirely innocent and right, in the sight of God; secondly, the parents of my friend, to settle whether I have their full approval for what I do. You need not be shocked at my being spoken against. Anybody, who is spoken about at all, is sure to be spoken against by somebody: and any action, however innocent in itself, is liable, and not at all unlikely, to be blamed by somebody. If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much

~ Lewis Carroll

Reputations are just history in rumor form.

~ 12 Dates Of Christmas

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

~ Richard Branson

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

My reputation grows with every failure.

~ George Bernard Shaw

No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what effect holding the Games in this or that capital will have on the host country's international reputation, how a nation's prestige can be raised by its medal count.

~ George Packer