#reputation

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#bashful #being #belonged #court #dull

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#deprive #grave #life #may #most

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

— Ernest Bramah

#depend #may #moment #reputation #single

At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#had #per #poor #program #reputation

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. ↗

— Voltaire

#defects #ends #makes #making #men

In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#discovering #everybody #honorable #made #possible

I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value. ↗

— Shane Warne

#face value #find #get #get together #i

I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value. I think that was how we were both, the way we were. ↗

— Shane Warne

#face #face value #find #get #get together

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. ↗

— George Washington

#associate #bad #better #company #esteem

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#declines #goes #increases #reputation #time