Bad Reputation Quotes

• Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Ninety Nine, Giving, Political

  "The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, 1984.

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• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Character, Deeds Done

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Reputation, Easier, Conscience

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• Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved

  Henry Mayhew

  Girl, Ballet, Reputation

  Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.

  Ted Kotcheff

  Reputation, Temperament

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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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• Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Motivation, Character

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• I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

  Jules Renard

  Funny, God, Sarcastic

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• All gods are better than their reputation.

  Mark Twain

  God, Novelists, Reputation

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• Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.

  Lord Chesterfield

  People, Reputation, Human Condition

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• Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.

  Robert Bresson

  Laughing, Reputation

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.56, New York Review of Books

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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, Reputation

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

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• You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

  Charles A. Beard

  Life, Father, Struggle

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• It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.

  Jim Rohn

  Honesty, Lying, Law

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 20, 2012

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• It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

  Lauren Oliver

  Change, Breakup, Wind

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• Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Meat

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• Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

  Joan Jett

  Want, Reputation, Good Person

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• Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775”, p.413

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• It is better to be alone than in bad company.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Friendship, Lonely

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• Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.

  Orson Scott Card

  Men, Hypocrisy, Dresses

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.256, Macmillan

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• If you aren’t going to say something directly to someone’s face, than don’t use online as an opportunity to say it. It is this sense of bravery that people get when they are anonymous that gives the blogosphere a bad reputation.

  Mena Grabowski Trott

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good; You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's alright, it's alright; Sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human, you're allowed to make your share of mistakes.

  Billy Joel

  Mistake, Hard Times, Reputation

  Song: You're Only Human

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• I don't believe in destroying GOOD mysteries or adding to BAD reputations.

  John Balance

  Believe, Reputation, Mystery

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• There are a few animals that have won themselves a bad reputation even though they have little or no effect on man. They have won their rating through man's interpretation of their attitude towards lower animals. These animals have been seen feeding in what appears to be a savage manner. But this behavior may perhaps be comparable to a man tearing the flesh off a chicken leg with his teeth.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Attitude, Animal, Men

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