reputation

1.

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

- George Bernard Shaw

2.

Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

- Margaret Mitchell

3.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

- Moody, Dwight L.

4.

At the time, my grandparents told my mom, Lordy, what is Shannen doing? Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation for bad behavior]

- Doherty, Shannen

5.

While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?

- Jefferson, Thomas

6.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

- Socrates

7.

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.

- Wilde, Oscar

8.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

- Margaret Mitchell

9.

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

10.

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

- Daniel Akst

11.

At every word a reputation dies.

- Pope, Alexander

12.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

- Petrarch, Francesco

13.

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly -- a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

- Twain, Mark

14.

There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man’s title to fame.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

15.

To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately.

- Billings, Josh

16.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

17.

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash;'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine,'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.

- William Shakespeare

18.

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

- Peter, Laurence J.

19.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

- Clark Gable

20.

The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

- William Shakespeare