The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness. . . and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation.
Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.
The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.
[F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection to such extraordinary manipulations, having been prolonged to 10 days (in Durban 70 years ago), truncated to as few as 60 balls (in Hong Kong every year), and remained recognisable in each instance?
Robert Mueller himself has perhaps the best and the cleanest reputation in all of official Washington. He is Mr. Integrity. He is Mr. Cultured. He is Mr. Mannered. He is Mr. Sophisticated. There isn't a soul in Washington who dares utter nary a negative word about Mueller.
I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.
Our reputations do not come from how we talk about ourselves. Our reputations come from how others talk about us.
My Lord, I have nothing to do in this World, but to seek and serve thee; I have nothing to do with a Heart and its affections, but to breathe after thee. I have nothing to do with my Tongue and Pen, but to speak to thee, and for thee, and to publish thy Glory and thy Will. What have I to do with all my Reputation, and Interest in my Friends, but to increase thy Church, and propagate thy holy Truth and Service? What have I to do with my remaining Time, even these last and languishing hours, but to look up unto thee, and wait for thy Grace, and thy Salvation?
My father always said, "You don't know who you are until you know where you came from. " That's one thing I always remembered. The other thing that my family always taught me was respect and reputation. You always respect yourself.
Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.
I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.
The Constitution gives you the right to a lawyer, but it doesn't allow you the right to a good reputation.
I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.
Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation. . . Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.