Gain A Good Reputation Quotes

#1. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Socrates

#2. What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

David Lloyd George

#3. The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.

Mandy Patinkin

#4. We do not exist for ourselves.

Thomas Merton

#5. I don't have some sort of moral dilemma with coming as a guest to an event or a fashion show.

Derek Blasberg

#6. My name is Death: the last best friend am I.

Robert Southey

#7. What right did this Nature have to bring me into the world as a result of some eternal law of hers? I was created with consciousness, and I was conscious of this Nature: what right did she have to produce me, a conscious being, without my willing it? ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. We find our vocations not by focusing on ourselves, but by focusing on others.

Jeff Goins

#9. It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

Francis Atterbury

#10. He repeated his plea that they be fair and open-minded, open to reason and compromise, and praised them for being so reasonable and open-minded thus far - which of course made it harder for them to act otherwise,

Robert A. Caro

#11. Sound comes to us over time. You don't get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building block, is change.

Gary Rydstrom

#12. I'll break your chains; so sing, Takuto. As loud and as much as you want. You don't have to hold back anything.

Arina Tanemura

#13. When I wrote 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School' I never expected it to be published. It was kind of a hobby. Now, it's a job, but it's a job I like very much.

Louis Sachar

#14. What prevents you from fully expressing yourself?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Friendship is a gift forever;
Cherish everyday, forget it never

Debasish Mridha

#16. Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.

Ben Marcus