Reputation Quotes - Page 18

• In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.

  Socrates

  Apology, Found, Investigation

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• Take care of your reputation. It's your most valuable asset.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life Lesson, Care, Assets

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.99, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat.

  Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

  Inspirational, Integrity, Leader

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• Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

  Socrates

  Integrity, Caring, Soul

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• Too many journalists and scientists have built their careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers have staked their reputation on it. The death of this theory will be painful and ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong.

  Martin Durkin

  Careers, Alarms, Ugly

  "The global-warmers were bound to attack, but why are they so feeble?". www.telegraph.co.uk. March 18, 2007.

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• The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe artists and writers who stayed up all night and ignored the pressures of the industrial world.

  Sarah Thornton

  Artist, Night, World

  Sarah Thornton (2012). “Seven Days In The Art World”, p.66, Granta Books

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• Trust and reputation are not discretionary. They are as necessary in business as the people in whom they reside.

  Tony Alessandra

  Trust, People

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• She's not impressed by your fancy car.
  She got a body so she's snotty and she don't care who you are.
  So don't get mad and dis her reputation
  Callin' her a floozy, any conversation.
  Mad grammar, backstabber, girls they wanna be her.
  But like Stevie Wonder, none of y'all can see her!

  Positive K

  Girl, Rap, Fancy Cars

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• 'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge.

  John F. Kennedy

  Army, Fighting, Imagination

  "Letter to the United States Army". April 11, 1962.

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• All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Wise, Men, People

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• No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Imagination, Expectations, Arrogance

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.275

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• But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Art, Practice, Want

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.163

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• How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Survival, Valiant

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

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• Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, Kill it. Squish it.

  Patricia Briggs

  Sex, Women, Said

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.130, Penguin

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• My career suffered massively because I had a reputation for being a very tabloid person.

  Sienna Miller

  Careers, Tabloids, Persons

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• A man is skillful at woodraft just in proportion as he approaches this balance. Knowing the wilderness can be comfortable when a less experienced man would endure hardship. Conversely, if a man endures hardships where a woodsman could be comfortable, it argues not his toughness, but his ignorance or foolishness, which is exactly the case with our blatant friend of the drawing-room reputation.

  Stewart Edward White

  Ignorance, Men, Drawing

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• An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Life, Individuality, Groups

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.192, Harvard University Press

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• I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Motivational, Successful, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Years, People, What If

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation.

  David Ogilvy

  Half, Other Half, One Half

  "Ogilvy on Advertising". Book by David Ogilvy, p. 109, 1983.

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• I'd like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade.

  Pat Riley

  Wonderful, Remembered, Decades

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• I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Running, Thinking, Order

  "Huntsman Calls for Civility Where Reagan Stood to Eviscerate Carter". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 21, 2011.

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• Anyone can say 'no'. It is the first word a child learns and often the
  first word he speaks. It is a cheap word because it requires no
  explanation, and many men and women have acquired a reputation for
  intelligence who know only this word and have used it in place of
  thought on every occasion.

  Chuck Jones

  Children, Men, Firsts

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• My duty as a member of the Council of the Twelve is to protect what is most unique about the LDS church, namely the authority of priesthood, testimony regarding the restoration of the gospel, and the divine mission of the Savior. Everything may be sacrificed in order to maintain the integrity of those essential facts. Thus, if Mormon Enigma reveals information that is detrimental to the reputation of Joseph Smith, then it is necessary to try to limit its influence and that of its authors.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Integrity, Unique, Order

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• Dominique Strauss-Kahn has always had a reputation as a man who cares for women, and even a libertine . . . There is a vast difference between [that] reputation . . .  and the charge which he is the object, which is a serious, very serious crime or sex crime. This is something very different.

  Elisabeth Guigou

  Sex, Men, Differences

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