reputation quotes

• Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. (Abraham Lincoln) [character/reputation/shadow/shadow]
• The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. ( Socrates) [reputation/desire]
• How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe. (Wystan Auden) [high/reputation/letter/press]
• To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately. () [reputation/give]
• When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. (Warren Buffett) [reputation/business/reputation/bad]
• There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter. (Charles Caleb Colton) [reputation/people/willpower]
• The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. (Charles Caleb Colton) [reputation/life]
• Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well. (Benjamin Franklin) [reputation]
• To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service. (Oliver Goldsmith) [excellence/reputation/provide/service]
• Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines. (Dag Hammarskjold) [time/reputation/ability]
• How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [people/reputation/reputation]
• I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man. (Sam Houston) [give/posterity/reputation]
• No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. (Thomas Jefferson) [willpower/reputation]
• The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed. (Samuel Johnson) [reputation/shine]
• So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [rest/mankind/reputation/reputation]
• Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. (Abraham Lincoln) [character/reputation/shadow/shadow]
• Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. (James Lowell) [reputation/light]
• The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do. (H. L. Mencken) [human/reputation/being]
• Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. (Margaret Mitchell) [reputation]
• Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us. (Thomas Paine) [reputation/men/women/think]
• At every word a reputation dies. (Alexander Pope) [reputation]
• I am better than my reputation. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [reputation]
• Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial! (William Shakespeare) [reputation/reputation/reputation/reputation]
• My reputation grew with every failure. (George Bernard Shaw) [reputation]
• The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. ( Socrates) [reputation/desire]
• Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company. (George Washington) [men/quality/reputation/bad]
• With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized. (Oscar Wilde) [evening/reputation/being]
• One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation. (Oscar Wilde) [death/reputation]
• To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you. (Oscar Wilde) [reputation/perfect/]
• Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact. (Oscar Wilde) [start/willpower/reputation/perfect]
• [Referring to the reputation she and Ms. Anderson share for being good in bed, she also recognized a difference: A guy wants to have sex with Pam] and tell all your friends about it. ... and tell none of your friends and see a doctor. (Courtney Love) [reputation/share/being/difference]

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