Top 100 Sayings About A Good Reputation
#1. A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.
George Eastman
#2. Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.
Sophia Bush
#3. A good reputation may be worth millions,
but a good character is worth all the riches of the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#4. Traditionally, with a DJ set, you just go hear DJ that has a good reputation and let the DJ take you somewhere. It was up to the DJ what he wanted to play. Typically in dance music, people didn't know most of the songs a DJ played.
A-Trak
#5. A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.
Kevin Hart
#7. It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin
#8. Image is everything. You don't spare any expense to create the right image. And word of mouth is critical. Once you get a good reputation, momentum will carry you.
Haruki Murakami
#9. What is a good man?
Simply one whose life is useful to the world.
And a bad man is simply one whose life is harmful to others.
There are, however, those who are harmful and yet enjoy a good reputation, and who manage to profit by a show of usefulness.
These are the worst of all.
Zhang Zhao
#10. 'The Road' was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.
Viggo Mortensen
#11. Honor is a trophy for the wise;
dishonor is a crown for fools.
A good reputation in the sight of men is precious;
a good name in the sight of God is priceless.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#12. It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
Pliny The Elder
#13. "What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#14. I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.
Ellie Goulding
#15. In my opinion, the only real asset one has is one's reputation, right? I mean, any company and institution can go belly up at any time. But if you have a good reputation, you know, you can usually find somebody who can - who thinks they can use what you have to offer.
Eric Betzig
#16. If you say that a good reputation serves to benefit the neighbor more, I admit that. However, since it should be based on a good life, it is, therefore, preserved by the practice of virtue and not by human intrigue.
Vincent De Paul
#17. One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
#18. A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.
Stephen King
#19. To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.
Josh Billings
#20. When I did 'Grease,' I took good care of myself. I treated it like a job. I approached it very professionally because I wanted to make a good reputation and hopefully continue on in the Broadway community and continue to do shows.
Laura Osnes
#21. You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.
Harvey MacKay
#22. When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.
Julius Erving
#23. You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.
Giuliana Rancic
#25. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates
#26. I don't want to be known as someone who is deliberately trying to do things that are not commercial! That is not a good reputation to have when you're trying to be a working actor.
Casey Affleck
#27. It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.
Francis Atterbury
#28. A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets.
Li Ka-shing
#29. I just started playing around different clubs, and I got a good reputation around New York City of having good timing, a good right foot, and I was "funky", "soulful", and all that stuff. Then I ran into this group, the Pigeons.
Carmine Appice
#30. Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.
Raymond Burr
#31. I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.
Aristotle Onassis
#32. No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
Helen Rowland
#33. I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed by Mr. Hoover who had been appointed Director continuously. He had, I would say, a good reputation.
John Sherman Cooper
#34. If one has a good reputation and trusted, the rules can be bent to accommodate.
Anita Shreve
#35. Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.
John Piper
#36. Once a person gains experience and a good reputation, it takes less and less money to create bigger and bigger investments.
Robert Kiyosaki
#37. MRS ALLONBY Have you tried a good reputation?
LORD ILLINGWORTH It is one of the many annoyances to which I have never been subjected.
Oscar Wilde
#38. It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.
Will Rogers
#39. Since humans are social animals, you're basically only as good as your reputation.
A.D. Aliwat
#40. A good name is better than precious ointment.
Solomon
#41. I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
#42. How much kindness have I shown Him in the past week? Has my life been a good reflection on His reputation? God is saying
Oswald Chambers
#43. I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities.
Ursula Burns
#44. Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.
Lord Chesterfield
#45. Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.
Louis Kronenberger
#46. I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is. - Hannah More
Karen Swallow Prior
#47. They reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.
Esther Forbes
#48. Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a person would soon ruin his health, his business, his reputation, his relations with his relatives and friends, in fact every good work which Providence gives him.
Francois Fenelon
#49. Despite attending a nominally Christian school, I had not yet been inside a church - and I wasn't about to dare the deed now. I knew very little about the religion. It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools.
Yann Martel
#51. I'm considered a difficult girl. I have a reputation for needing to be told a good reason to do something before I will do it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#52. which has the power or quality of adding. The additory fiction gives to a great man a larger share of reputation than belongs to him, to enable him to serve some good end or purpose.Arbuthnot'sArt of political Lying.
Samuel Johnson
#53. I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.
Ariel Pink
#54. When we justify a flaw we are actually inventing a new one. When a woman neglects developing her own character, she not only chisels away her own reputation, but the reputation of everyone in her household.
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Michael Ben Zehabe
#55. You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good; You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's alright, it's alright; Sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human, you're allowed to make your share of mistakes.
Billy Joel
#56. I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology.
Paul Nurse
#57. It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
Calamity Jane
#58. An entertainer's reputation as a live act is the most valuable thing he or she can have. If people know you give good shows, you'll never be broke for the rest of your life.
Chris Rock
#59. If I'm wrong, and you find yourself in an organization where sucking up is in fact a good way to get ahead, look for a new job. It's not a quality organization after all, no matter how glittering its public reputation may be. Life is too short to work there.
Charles Murray
#60. Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
Bob Barr
#61. Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician.
Hermann Hesse
#62. That is something I'm specifically equipped to discuss - how reputation can affect even your capacity to rent a place. Having good credit is irrelevant in the face of something like getting thrown out of court six years ago. I've really thought this out.
Courtney Love
#63. A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#64. Develop a reputation as a person who, rather than talking a good game, actually plays a good game.
Bob Burg
#65. Ka'b ibn Malik reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Two hungry wolves loose among sheep do not cause as much damage as that caused to a man's deen by his greed for money and reputation.
Muhammad Al-Tirmidhi
#66. I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
#67. There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize the work or to explain the work and so on. And then there's the critics who just wants to make a reputation by attacking. Those are the ones I'm not keen on.
Peter Bogdanovich
#68. Some of us got our reputations because we wrote good books or had clever publicists. He got his reputation through sheer hard work.
James A. Owen
#69. Had I faltered we would have neither the success nor the international reputation we have. Yet when a woman is strong she is strident. If a man is strong, he's a good guy.
Margaret Thatcher
#70. You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
W. Somerset Maugham
#71. The single most pressing earthly obligation of every medieval artisan was the establishment of a good personal reputation.11
Richard Sennett
#72. It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.
Ellie Goulding
#73. ...your name will remain forever in the memory of people. However, it will not be a good memory. Your name will become a household name in all languages, and it will only cause bad associations in humans.
Viktor Shel
#74. Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Charles Simmons
#75. 73. When you have done a good act and another has received it, why do you look for a third thing besides these, as fools do, either to have the reputation of having done a good act or to obtain a return?
Marcus Aurelius
#76. Turning to Ann Gower, she smiled. "You're a good woman, Ann Gower."
Ann Gower drew back and looked askance at Mary. "Don't you go ruinin' me reputation, Mary Abacus. I be a real bad woman, but a bloody good whore, and you knows it!
Bryce Courtenay
#77. Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.
Robert Bresson
#78. The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
Oscar Wilde
#79. This is Huck Finn, a child of mine of shady reputation. Be good to him for his parent's sake.
Mark Twain
#80. A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
Henry Ward Beecher
#81. I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway.
Ed Koch
#82. One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
Henry David Thoreau
#83. My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition.
Joyce Carol Oates
#85. Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It's funny finding what's challenging about acting as you go.
Allison Williams
#86. But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
Kate Bush
#87. Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
Madeleine Albright
#88. Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.
Orison Swett Marden
#89. A strong reputation is like a good bonfire. When you have one kindled it's easy to keep the flame burning, even if someone comes along and tries to piss on it. But if you fall asleep and neglect it ... You'll wake up with ashes.
Zachary Taylor
#90. The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.
Richard Steele
#91. I think he takes a good shot, I take a good shot too, but taking too many shots is not good for any fighter. And it's not really a reputation you want.
Andre Ward
#92. Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.
Joan Jett
#93. Many good people mistake their reputation for their character. It is a mistake I have made many, many times.
John McCain
#94. Referrals are very powerful. When I refer you, I give a little bit of my reputation away. If you do a good job, my friend that hired you is pleased. But if you do a bad job, that reflects badly on me. People forget that.
Ivan Misner
#95. Pritkin put a heavy hand on my shoulder, which was just as well. It probably wouldn't have looked good to choke the head of the Silver Circle to death right before the coronation. Then again, my reputation was shot to hell anyway ...
Karen Chance
#96. All that is necessary for evil to triumph, said Burke, is for good men to do nothing; and most good men nowadays can be relied upon to do precisely that. Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.
Theodore Dalrymple
#98. It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and they can't get it out because there's too much greed. There's too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success.
Cornel West
#99. The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
Ban Ki-moon
#100. Buying market share by hiring your competitors' salespeople does nothing good for your reputation in the industry. Maybe you don't care when you're young and brash, but eventually you learn that reputation is a crucial business asset, worth much more over the long run than a few extra sales.
Norm Brodsky
