Reputation Quotes - Page 39

• After almost two hours of creeping around the forest, one of the jacks discovered Belen. He had fallen asleep, and the young man had literally tripped over him. So much for his reputation.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Men, Two, Forests

  Maria V. Snyder (2013). “Scent of Magic”, p.138, Harlequin

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• Moments later a huge male with a cropped mohawk came out. Rehvenge was dressed in a perfectly tailored black suit and had a black cane in his right hand. As he came slowly over to the Brotherhood's table, his patrons parted before him, partly out of respect for his size, partly out of fear from his reputation. Everyone knew who he was and what he was capable of: Rehv was the kind of drug lord who took a personal interest in his livelihood. You crossed him and you turned up diced like something off the Food Channel.

  J.R. Ward

  Hands, Drug, Black

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.69, Penguin

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• I thought you two might be up against it. Benedict Lightwood’s parties have a reputation for danger. When I heard you were here—” “We’re well equipped to handle danger,” Tessa said. Magnus eyed her bosom openly. “I can see that,” he said. "Armed to the teeth, as it were.

  Cassandra Clare

  Party, Two, Teeth

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.732, Simon and Schuster

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• Power lies in the details, and the tenacious pursuit of such hidden levers can pay off enormously. While you don't want to get a reputation as a prissy worrywart, worrying about the details in private is important. You may think you are the world's greatest speaker, but if the auditorium's sound system is singing static - well, forget it.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Lying, Thinking

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• Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Business, Character, Tree

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• In daily practice, the word brand stands as a surrogate for the word reputation. In fact, your brand acts just like a person. When you know a person's reputation, you can predict his or her behavior. You know what that person is likely to do or say-or not do or say-in any given situation. Your brand works the same way.

  Jim Mullen

  Business, Practice, Way

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• All gods are better than their reputation.

  Mark Twain

  God, Novelists, Funny Religious

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Women, People, History

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• I am 54 years old and happily single. In addition to my nuclear family, I have a close circle of friends. Most of my friends are men. But my reputation is such that their female partners would never consider me a threat.

  Geraldine Lee Wei Ling

  Single, Men, Years

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• A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions.

  Raymond A. Spruance

  Business, Men, Decision

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• My father said, 'You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals'.

  J. Paul Getty

  Inspirational, Money, Business

  "Making Sense of Business: A No-Nonsense Guide to Business Skills". Book by Alison Branagan, p. 136, 2009.

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• The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Important

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• Most people tell you they want to get out of kindergarten, but don't believe them. Don't believe them! All they want you to do is to mend their broken toys. "Give me back my wife. Give me back my job. Give me back my money. Give me back my reputation, my success." This is what they want; they want their toys replaced. That's all. Even the best psychologist will tell you that, that people don't really want to be cured. What they want is relief; a cure is painful.

  Anthony de Mello

  Life, Success, Spiritual

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• Had I faltered we would have neither the success nor the international reputation we have. Yet when a woman is strong she is strident. If a man is strong, he's a good guy.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Strong, Independent, Men

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• Lincoln described character is a tree and reputation as its shadow. The tree will always be what it is but the shadow we see depends on where we stand and the angle of the light.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Light, Tree

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• The way we treat people we think can't help or hurt us - like housekeepers, waiters, and secretaries - tells more about our character than how we treat people we think are important. How we behave when we think no one is looking or when we don't think we will get caught more accurately portrays our character than what we say or do in service of our reputations.

  Michael Josephson

  Hurt, Character, Thinking

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• Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.

  Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

  Character

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

  Josh Billings

  Character, Giving, Stealing

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

  Lord Byron

  Fame, Folly, Martyrdom

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.513, Delphi Classics

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• Fame is a constant effort

  Jules Renard

  Effort, Fame, Constant

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.18, Tin House Books

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• When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, Risk, Pieces

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• Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore they no longer need to waste their efforts in defending them.

  Thomas Merton

  Humble, Humility, People

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• Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided.

  Laozi

  Humility, Should, Avoided

  Laozi, Lie zi, Léon Wieger, Derek Bryce, Zhuang zi (1984). “Wisdom of the Daoist Masters: The Works of Lao Zi (Lao Tzu), Lie Zi (Lieh Tzu), Zhuang Zi (Chuang Tzu)”

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• Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is just two times two, and that is what we call four for short. But four is nothing new at all. And thus it goes on and on in its conclusions, except that in the higher formulas the identity fades out of sight.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Math, Two, Sight

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• Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.

  Alvan Macauley

  Truth, Character, Giving

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