Reputation Quotes - Page 8

• I am like a Rolls- Royce. I can run without an engine, purely on reputation

  Shahrukh Khan

  Running, Witty, Rolls Royce

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• To have integrity one must be consistently honest and trustworthy in everything one does...When you have integrity, people know you will do what you know is right...Its knowing what you have to do without someone telling you to do it. It is the core of a person's-and a company's- reputation.

  Richard M. Kovacevich

  Trust, Honesty, Integrity

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• Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Integrity, Sake

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• Once your reputation's done/ You can live a life of fun

  Gregor von Rezzori

  Fun, Done

  Gregor Von Rezzori (2011). “Memoirs of an Anti-Semite”, p.2, New York Review of Books

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• I hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can't be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing to Jerry Tarkanian only because he has a reputation for giving a second chance to many black athletes other coaches have branded as troublemakers. The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!

  Bill Walton

  Hurt, Hate, Athlete

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• I don’t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Thinking, Iraq

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• Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.

  William Wycherley

  Women, Honor, Ems

  "The Country Wife".

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• Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Inspirational, Life, Character

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 46. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.

  George Washington

  Thinking, Gentleman, Events

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.121

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• Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin, and then, like him, shall have to labor with the current of opinion, when COMPELLED perhaps, to do what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance.

  George Washington

  Running, Inheritance, Littles

  George Washington (1872). “Words of Washington”, p.106

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• There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.

  George Washington

  Weakness, United States, Lost

  United States. President, George Washington, United States (1825). “The speeches, addresses and messages, of the several presidents of the United States, at the openings of Congress and at their respective inaugurations: Also, the Declaration of independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's farewell address to his fellow-citizens”, p.62

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• People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

  Richard Avedon

  Running, Ambition, People

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• A lot of times when people meet me, theyll definitely try to make me feel young or inexperienced. Like, Its all taken care of. Teenagers are such a discerning group of people. Theyll immediately sniff out anything that feels contrived. Im, like, constantly scanning myself to see if Im some corporate executive version of a teenager. Ive developed something of a fearsome reputation. People know that if you talk down to me, I will roll my eyes or whatever.

  Lorde

  Teenager, Taken, Eye

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• Once established, reputations do not easily change.

  Albert Bandura

  Self Efficacy

  "Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social-Cognitive Theory". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

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• Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.

  Andrew Sarris

  Opinion, Film, Stakes

  Andrew Sarris (1973). “The primal screen: essays on film and related subjects”, Simon & Schuster

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• I don't think it was a patriotic war. I think it was a mistake, a strategic mistake, and I think that the president of the United States wasn't patriotic in going after Saddam Hussein. He simply misled America and cost us casualties and killed and injured America's reputation around the world without valid reason for doing so. It's not patriotic; it's wrong.

  Wesley Clark

  War, Mistake, Patriotic

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• Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.

  Brian Aldiss

  Writing, Pride, Reality

  "Bury My Heart at W. H. Smith's". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1990.

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• Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to be forced to become rapacious, a prince must consider it of little importance if he incurs the name of miser, for this is one of the vices that permits him to rule.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Order, Vices, Littles

  "The Portable Machiavelli".

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• I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Crank, Madmen

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.163, A&C Black

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• But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.

  Kate Bush

  Track, Dresses, Records

  "'I'm not some weirdo recluse'". Interview with Tom Doyle, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2005.

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• The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.

  Jefferson Davis

  Son, Troops, Gains

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

  Robert Bresson

  Laughing, Bad Reputation

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

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• Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system's reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.

  Ray Kroc

  Focus, Quality, Stores

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.70, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.

  Charmian Clift

  Women, Loss, Development

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• Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.

  Miles Franklin

  Girl, Clever, Husband

  Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.76, The Floating Press

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