You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.
If you have a live reputation and your popularity is proven that way, then you're bound to get signed up because they see all those people buying those tickets and they think some of those people will buy those records, and that's what their business is primarily about.
Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.
You know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention to it anymore.
Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable.
Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!
People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys.
Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
It's funny because I think it also goes very well with the show. It has this reputation as being this love city where everyone goes to get married, but when you get there, it's very corny and tacky.
I am better than my reputation
I suddenly realized I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad.
Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.
To Garan's credit, the treatment of Dellian prisoners did change after that. One particularly laconic man, after a session in which Fire learned positively nothing, thanked her for it specifically. "Best dungeons I ever been in," he said, chewing on a toothpick. "Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he had gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers.
If you pay too much attention to your reputation, you could lose your character.
That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.
We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation.
It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.
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?
Purpose should determine approach. At the end of the day, it's what we do, not what we purposed to do, that defines our lives and reputations.
I can't destroy the whole army, and anyway [Tikka Khan] bad reputation for the events in Dacca is exaggerated.