Reputation Quotes - Page 4

• Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.

  Fisher Ames

  Failing, Scrutiny, Strict

  Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames”, p.116

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• Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.

  Alain de Botton

  Thinking, People, Matter

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• The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  World, Unkind

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

  Washington Irving

  World, Care, This World

  Washington Irving (1991). “Bracebridge Hall ; Tales of a Traveller ; The Alhambra”, p.495, Library of America

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• If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

  Christopher Gadsden

  Country, Acceptance, Loss

  Christopher Gadsden (1966). “The Writings of Christopher Gadsden, 1746-1805”, Columbia : University of South Carolina Press

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• Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

  Henry Anatole Grunwald

  Perspective, Ornaments, Defense

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• With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Courage, Wind, Gone

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

  Isaac Asimov

  Foundation, Pay, Obvious

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction”

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• When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing, Market Risk

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

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• Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

  Epicurus

  Philosophical, Hard Times, Skills

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• Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

  Ben Jonson

  Relax, Ruins, Produce

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• Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.

  Bryant H. McGill

  People, Literature, Ability

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• I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

  Princess Diana

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

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• For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

  Charles Lamb

  Dog, Gentleman, Sake

  Letter to Coleridge, August 6, 1800.

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• Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Suffering, Age, Youth

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.467

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• No book was ever written down by any but itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Written

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.317, Library of America

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• Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tears, Mouths, Honour

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• And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

  Charles Churchill

  Charles Churchill (1774). “The Rosciad. The apology. The prophecy of famine, a Scots pastoral. An epistle to William Hogarth. The ghost. book 1-2”, p.57

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• O reputation! dearer far than life.

  James Russell Lowell

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• Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of.

  Socrates

  Jewels, Names, Advice

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• 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.

  Les Brown

  Judging People, Judgement, Done

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• A good reputation is more valuable than money.

  Publilius Syrus

  Money, Insightful, Valuable

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 108,

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• If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.

  Arthur Ashe

  Mean, Possession, Ifs

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• War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Country, War, Men

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. VII), 1916.

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• Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

  Blaise Pascal

  Law, Imagination, Earth

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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