Quotes
Quotes about Reputation
Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.
A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations ... can never effect a reform. -Susan B. Anthony.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
To throw a blot on a man's reputation by praising him.
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a reform.
It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.
And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.
For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!
In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.
The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. [Ger., Das Aergste weiss die Welt von mir, und ich Kann sagen, ich bin besser als mein Ruf.]
I have offended reputation, A most unnoble swerving.
I see my reputation is at stake; My fame is shrewdly gored.
O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.
