#reputation

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

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

I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#army #felt #general #i #made

I don't consider myself a martial-arts star. I'd be offended and disappointed if I got a reputation as a martial-arts star. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#disappointed #got #i #myself #offended

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#false #got #idle #imposition #lost

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#another #being #bum #neighborhood #pride

Work is the price which is paid for reputation. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#price #reputation #which #work

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#gigantic #him #his #like #man

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#integrity #lie #reputation #single #whole