Reputation Quotes - Page 17

• London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.

  Laura Mvula

  School, London, Too Cool

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• Switching over to a hybrid car is one of those right things, but, unfairly or not, it still has a reputation among car enthusiasts as something you have to pedal really fast when you're on the ramp merging into traffic on the 401.

  Linwood Barclay

  Car, Switching, Traffic

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• Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.

  Frederick Buechner

  Clothes, Storm, Vulnerable

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Aug 06, 2015

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• Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

  Jonathan Swift

  Book, Looks, Scandal

  'The Journal of a Modern Lady' (1729) l. 188

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• Wait a minute. You expect me to stay overnight in a house with four single men? Sean grinned. We're perfect gentlemen, Kim. Everyone knows that. Don't let us worry you. I'm not worried about my reputation, I'm worried about the state of the bathrooms.

  Jennifer Ashley

  Men, Perfect, Worry

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• The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. In this case, the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.

  Scott McClellan

  Country, War, Media

  "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception". Book by Scott McClellan, April 21, 2008.

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• Our reputations do not come from how we talk about ourselves. Our reputations come from how others talk about us.

  Simon Sinek

  Twitter post from Feb 06, 2012

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• The reputation is not essentially built by earning too much, learning too many things, achieving awards, bagging rewards or catapulting position to the hilt; but by unquestionably staying simple, humble , well grounded and doing nothing that makes own conscience to feel guilt.

  Anuj

  Humble, Simple, Awards

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• Not necessarily reputation, rank, societal position or status,but the happiness and enjoyment that a person pretends or fakes to derive with his possessed money or wealth or both make largely others jealous and envious of him.

  Anuj

  Jealous, Fake, Wealth

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• When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Loses

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• I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

  Dylan Moran

  Guy, Comic, Happens

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• This is a weird feeling in my life I have to deal with, not being a violent man anymore when my whole life's reputation was built on being extremely violent. I just don't know how to deal with that right now. I don't even go to strip clubs no more. I don't know who I am sometimes, but I am not the guy I used to be. I'm not an angel or anything. I'm still lascivious, periodically. I'm just looking for some balance in my life.

  Mike Tyson

  Angel, Men, Who I Am

  "Tyson's love for the fight game turns to disgust" by Dan Rafael, www.espn.com. June 11, 2005.

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• ....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Politics, Unstable, Unhealthy

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.87, Penguin

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• There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the war to defeat Bush, well, noted. If they truly believe that the United States is in the same group as the Nazis, the Soviets and Pol Pot, then they've shown they have no perspective, no judgment, no sense of nuance, shall we say. And the idea that such comparisons might be picked up in the Middle East and broadcast with glee is irrelevant; they're parochial to a fault, and care little for anything beyond their reputation and power in Washington.

  James Lileks

  War, Believe, Ideas

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• I once read in a Bible commentary that the word "Christian" means "little Christs." What an honor to share Christ's name! We can be bold to call ourselves Christians and bear the stamp of his character and reputation. When people find out the you are a Christian, they should already have an idea of who you are and what you are like simply because you bear such a precious name.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Christian, Character, Mean

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• Reputation is what people expect us to do next. It's their expectation of the quality and character of the next thing we produce or say or do.
  We control our actions (even when it feels like we don't) and our actions over time (especially when we think no one is looking) earn our reputation.

  Seth Godin

  Character, Thinking, People

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• A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Spring, Moving, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “The Art of Literature”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, People, Honor

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.35, 谷月社

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• A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Vices, Needs, Prudent

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.90, Penguin

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• One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Men, Manners

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.145, Princeton University Press

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• Posterity is always just.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Posterity

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Kelly (1998). “The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes”, p.582, UPNE

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• There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Book, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.50, Penguin

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• When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Alive, Merit

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• Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

  George Eliot

  Stories, May, Fame

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6581, Delphi Classics

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• Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Wife, World

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