#reputation

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. ↗

— Jules Renard

#exists #god #his #i #know

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#becomes #difficult #exceed #expectations #fine

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#carry #ever #him #into #man

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do. ↗

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

#friendship #important #job #purposes #put

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#confidence #had #industry #negligence #produces

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school. ↗

— Eli Whitney

#approbation #desire #itself #keep #must

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life. ↗

— Thomas Kretschmann

#amusing #because #bit #constructed #copied

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#being #eaten #had #hard #hard worker

I am better than my reputation. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#better #i #i am #reputation #than

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. ↗

— Liz Smith

#build #cannot #intend #reputation #somewhere