If I've learned one thing in the 14 years I've been a full-time cartoonist, it's that you can not let anyone else define your professionalism. It has to be a personal ethos to which you adhere despite third party influence or acceptance. The old measuring sticks for professionalism are going away and now more than ever it's time for independent creatives to set the bar. Set it high.

About Socrates

Portrait of Socrates

Socrates (; Ancient Greek: Σωκράτης, romanized: Sōkrátēs; c. 470 – 399 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher from Classical Athens, perhaps the first Western moral philosopher, and a major inspiration on his student Plato, who largely founded the tradition of Western philosophy. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and...

More quotations from Socrates

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

By all means marry: if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

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More quotations tagged with “reputation”

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

—Publilius Syrus

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.

—Lord Jeffery

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

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History

11 Jul 2015 Added