Quotes about Reputation

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.

What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion.

Give a dog a bad name and you may as well hang him." But give him a good name—and see what happens!

Once I did bad and that I heard ever, twice I did good, but that I heard never.

PRINCIPLE 5 Let the other person save face.

There is an old saying: 'Give a dog a bad name and you may as well hang him.' But give him a good name — and see what happens!

There is an old saying: 'Give a dog a bad name and you may as well hang him.' But give him a good name — and see what happens!

Their desire for such honor was keeping them from believing, because you cannot hold the esteem of others to that degree of importance and at the same time believe that God is who he is. It is not possible. As long as people are hung up on honor from other people—reputation, appearing well—they cannot truly believe and trust God.

Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.

Father said it used to be a gentleman was known by his books, nowadays he is known by the ones he has not returned.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness