#reputation

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. ↗

— Mencius

#enter #into #kindly #kindness #men

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

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

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#rarely #reputation #virtue

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. ↗

— Sallust

#brave #coward #defeat #even #his

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#great #had #having #lean #now

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#became #cast #causes #character #connect

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#atheist #back #crawl #dangerous #easiest

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#his #know #man #many #met