Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." Longfellow "Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.
A good name is better than precious ointment.
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.
No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
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.
"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."
Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.
You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.
Once a person gains experience and a good reputation, it takes less and less money to create bigger and bigger investments.
You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.
A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.
We've learned from experience that the truth will out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature's phenomena will agree or they'll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven't tried to be very careful in this kind of work. And it's this type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is missing to a large extent in much of the research in Cargo Cult Science.
The Constitution gives you the right to a lawyer, but it doesn't allow you the right to a good reputation.
When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.
Because of the caste system, because of the fact that there is no social link between those who make the decisions and those who suffer the decisions, the Indian government just goes ahead and does what it wants. The people also assume that this is their lot, their karma, what was written. It's quite an efficient way of doing things. Therefore, India has a very good reputation in the world as a democracy, as a government that cares, that has just got too much on its hands, whereas, in fact, it's actually creating the problems.
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