Quotes about Reputation

As for reputation, though it be a glorious instrument of advancing our Master's service, yet there is a better than that: a clean heart, a single eye, and a soul full of God. A fair exchange if, by the loss of reputation, we can purchase the lowest degree of purity of heart.

The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion.

Whatsoever he said, all men believed him that as he spake, so he thought, and whatsoever he did, that he did it with a good intent.

He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.

The market wants to see you persist. It demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.

The reason Steve Herrell's shop did so well is that it was famous for having a line! People brought folks from out of town to have the experience.

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

At all events, it is certain that if any medicinal man had come to Middlemarch with the reputation of having very definite religious views, of being given to prayer, and of otherwise showing an active piety, there would have been a general presumption against his medical skill.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.