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Reputations Quotes (page 8)

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? Socrates
When a bill was put before the state legislature in Jefferson City that would have prohibited anyone who owned a saloon from holding elective office and reporters asked what he thought of it, Alderman Jim said probably the bill was intended as a way of improving the reputation of saloonkeepers. David McCullough
Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad. Rumi
My dear fellow why have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are. You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. Oscar Wilde
Benjamin Franklin quote: "Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never..."
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended. Benjamin Franklin
John Steinbeck quote: "A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself."
A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself. John Steinbeck
I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition. Joseph Haydn
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation."
A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation. Friedrich Nietzsche
They have clubbed us off the streets they are stronger they are rich they hire and fire the politicians the newspapereditors the old judges the small men with reputations the collegepresidents the wardheelers (listen businessmen collegepresidents judges America will not forget her betrayers) they hire the men with guns the uniforms the policecars the patrolwagons all right you have won you will kill the brave men our friends tonight (author's punctuation) John Dos Passos
No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred. Thomas Jefferson
Joseph Conrad quote: "As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as..."
As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement. Joseph Conrad
P. D. James quote: "It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary..."
It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less. P. D. James
Warren Buffett quote: "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to..."
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently. Warren Buffett
John Wooden quote: "Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character..."
Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character is what you really are John Wooden
How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe. W. H. Auden

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