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Reputation Quotes

"It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it."

Pliny the Elder, Roman Author

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"I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it."

Robert Emmet, Irish Activist

Reputation, Calumny

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"I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair."

Jane Alexander, American Actress

Reputation, Years

"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French Diplomat

Reputation, Shadow

"He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world."

George Herbert, British Poet

Reputation, Credit, World

"Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist."

Ethel Merman, American Musician

"The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you."

Edward F. Halifax, British Statesman

Reputation, Name, Numbers

"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 Russell Lowell, American Poet

Reputation, Light, Merit, World

"I am better than my reputation."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

"Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers."

Elizabeth Arden, Canadian Businessman

Reputation, Repetition

"A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment."

Ernest Bramah, English Writer

Reputation, May, Years

"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."

Rem Koolhaas, Dutch Architect

"Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Reputation, State

"We do not have the right to make the name of God look bad by our pitiful and impoverished existence."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Reputation, God, Name, Existence

"Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars."

Rupert Murdoch, American Publisher

"It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us."

Albert Speer, German Architect

"That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!"

Harry Nilsson, American Musician

Reputation, Years

"Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides."

Peter Benchley, American Author

Reputation, Tides

"I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways."

Damon Hill, British Athlete

Reputation, Forget, Press

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