Reputation Quotes - Page 11

• Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

  George William Curtis

  Appreciate, Noble, Deeds

  George William Curtis (1894). “From the Easy Chair”

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• No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Loss, Men

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• If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Character, Men, People

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• Character: The ability to carry out a worthy decision after the emotion of making that decision has passed. Character simply stated is doing what you said you were going to do. If you develop a reputation for that, do you have any idea the effect that has on self-perception? Its immense, just immense. The Savior was a man of character. He did everything he said he was going to do.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Success, Wisdom, Peace

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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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• There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mills supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Political Opinions, Doubt, Littles

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• English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.

  Paul Scott

  Mean, Light, Years

  Paul Scott (2011). “The Raj Quartet, Volume 1: The Jewel in the Crown”, p.206, University of Chicago Press

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• I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation

  Ben Jonson

  Inspirational, Education, Past

  "Volpone and The Alchemist".

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• A strong reputation is like a good bonfire. When you have one kindled it's easy to keep the flame burning, even if someone comes along and tries to piss on it. But if you fall asleep and neglect it...You'll wake up with ashes.

  Zachary Taylor

  Strong, Fall, Character

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• Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur

  Samuel Johnson

  Names, Add, Spirit

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.232

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• The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character.

  Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins

  Inspirational, Character, World

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• Christians ought to have a reputation for being the most dependable people at work. They are always aware of who their true boss is.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, People, Boss

  Sr Rick Warren (1998). “The Power to Change Your Life: Exchanging Personal Mediocrity for Spiritual Significance”, Pastors.com

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• Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all the rest of mathematics. In one respect this last point is accurate.

  David Mumford

  Math, Lasts, Esoteric

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• Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Loss, Missing, Risk

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• If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Competition, Honest, Beats

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• Referrals are very powerful. When I refer you, I give a little bit of my reputation away. If you do a good job, my friend that hired you is pleased. But if you do a bad job, that reflects badly on me. People forget that.

  Ivan Misner

  Jobs, Powerful, People

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• Integrity is what you do behind closed doors or when you think nobody is watching. Integrity is the true essence of who you are, your beliefs and your values. Reputation is the public perception of who you are. It is how others view your integrity or strong moral principles.

  Erik Qualman

  Strong, Integrity, Thinking

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• Privacy is dead. Reputations are dying.

  Erik Qualman

  Dying, Privacy

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• Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Evil, Vices, May

  Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee

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• For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.

  Iain Pears

  Blow, Men, Breaths

  Iain Pears (1999). “AN Instance of the Fingerpost”, p.404, Penguin

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• Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.

  Chaz Brenchley

  Regret, Real, Rain

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• Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.

  Ken Baumann

  Mistake, Shakes, Hard

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• The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege, but the abuse of it in this country is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the press is a deep stain upon the character of the country; and in addition to the evil of calumniating good men and giving a wrong direction to public measures, it corrupts the people by rendering them insensible to the value of truth and of reputation.

  Noah Webster

  Christian, Country, Character

  "Letters".

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• A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism, and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist.

  Louis Menand

  Risk, Curiosity, Requirements

  "Browbeaten". www.newyorker.com. September 5, 2011.

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• Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a cohesive yet highly idiosyncratic literary history. Each page affords sparkling facts and valuable insights onto the manufacturing of books and reputations, the keeping and revealing of secrets, the vagaries of private life and public opinion, and the eternally mysterious, often tormented interface between life and literature.

  Elif Batuman

  Book, Secret, Public Opinion

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