John Tillotson Quotes About Reputation

Quotes about: Reputation

• When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

  John Tillotson

  Integrity, Men, Reputation

  John Tillotson, Thomas Birch (1820). “The works of Dr. John Tillotson ... with the life of the author”, p.23

• Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

  John Tillotson

  Reality, Religion, World

• If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end.

  John Tillotson

  Men, Lasts, Needs

  John Tillotson (1748). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...”, p.18

• In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

  John Tillotson

  Reality, World, Reputation

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