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.
All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.
I somehow got this reputation of diddling and dithering. I don't remember dithering at all.
And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.
But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.
Me? Robin Goodfellow, a family man? He, not likely, ice-boy. I mean, think of what that would do to my reputation. Glamour shimmered around him, and he gave us a wink. Later, lovebirds. Gimme a heads up when the kid arrives. 'Uncle Puck' will be waiting.
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
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.
Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.
The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.
The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct. Anyone who attacks such ideas must seem to be a trifle self-confident and even aggressive. The man who makes his entry by leaning against an infirm door gets an unjustified reputation for violence. Something is to be attributed to the poor state of the door.
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.
A lot of people would say "well that's not a bad reputation. you sound like a pussy" and I would say yea. but I am passionate about music and being taken seriously about my music, so if you're going to mess with that, we have a problem.
You know, Taylor, I told his manager that your reputation in this firm is that you can go head-to-head with any man. And win.
It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings.
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
You earn your reputation by the things you do every day.