Reputation Quotes - Page 5

• Watching those guys pummel each other so no one would suspect them of being weak was too much for me. Their reputations were more important than their faces.

  Jay Asher

  Guy, Important, Too Much

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.112, Penguin

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• Repetition makes reputation.

  Elizabeth Arden

  Repetition

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• A good name is better than precious ointment.

  Solomon

  Family, Names, Ecclesiastes

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• Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Time, Increase, Decline

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Dignity, Masters, Wanted

  Lawana Blackwell (2007). “Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, The”, p.173, Bethany House

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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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• For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

  Robert Benchley

  Time, Evil, Justice

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

  Robert Emmet

  Calumny Is, Accusation, Should

  Charles Phillips, John Finlay (barrister-at-law.), Robert Emmet (1820). “The Speeches of Charles Phillip: Esquire, Delivered at the Bar and on Various Occasions, in Ireland and England”, p.272

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• Concealed talent brings no reputation.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Talent, Concealed

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• Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Worldly Wisdom, Paid

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

  John Tillotson

  Reality, World, Affair

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• Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Success, Character, Divorce

  "A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and Manners". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Integrity

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• Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

  Faith Baldwin

  Character, Swiftness, Incredibles

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• Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Business, Important, Dollars

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• At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

  Alexander Pope

  Dies

  'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 3, l. 16

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• A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, Men, Draws

  "The Spectator: with notes and illustrations".

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Two, People, Way

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• Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

  Plato

  Feelings, Action, Shame

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

  Josh Billings

  Sarcastic, Money, Sarcasm

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• I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  May, Chance, Raises

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 667-68, Iphigenia auf Tauris, II. 1. 140, 1922.

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• For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bears, Strolling, Doubtful

  "Hermann and Dorothea". Poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, VII. 93, October 1797.

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• That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Men, Knaves, Kind

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