More quotations tagged with “reputation”
Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.
—Lawana Blackwell
There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.
—Charles Caleb Colton
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
—Lois McMaster Bujold
Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?
—Socrates
When do I stop? When I'm twenty-five? Thirty? Thirty-five? Forty? Or right this minute? Nobody tells you how long you should keep doing something before you give up forever.
—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings