#reputation

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy. ↗

— Brian Koslow

#eulogy #evaluate #own #reputation #said

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. ↗

— Epictetus

#gain #glory #greater #more #pilots

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#even #event #games #guilt #life

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#down #everything #except #good #good reputation

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. ↗

— John Wooden

#character #concerned #merely #more #others

This wasn’t what she expected. Never, in her wildest dreams. This... this was the Blood Queen of Garbhán Isle? Scourge of the Madron lands? Destroyer of Villages? Demon Killer of Women and Children? She who had blood pacts with the darkest of gods? This was Annwyl the Bloody? Talaith watched, fascinated, as Annwyl held onto Morfyd the Witch’s wrists. Morfyd — the Black Witch of Despair, Killer of the Innocent, Annihilator of Souls, and all around Mad Witch of Garbhán Isle or so she was called on the Madron lands — had actually tried to sneak up on Annwyl to put ointment on the nasty wound the queen had across her face. But as soon as the warrior saw her, she squealed and grabbed hold of her. Now Annwyl lay on her back, Morfyd over her, trying her best to get Annwyl to stop being a ten year old. “If you just let me—” “No! Get that centaur shit away from me, you demon bitch!” “Annwyl, I’m not letting you go home to my brother looking like that. You look horrific.” “He’ll have to love me in spite of it. Now get off!” ... “Ow!” “Crybaby.” No, this isn’t what Talaith expected. Annwyl the Blood Queen was supposed to be a vicious, uncaring warrior bent on revenge and power. She let her elite guard rape and and pillage wherever they went, and she used babies as target practice while their mothers watched in horror. That’s what she was supposed to be and that’s what Talaith expected to find. Instead, she found Annwyl. Just Annwyl. A warrior who spent most of her resting time reading or mooning over her consort. She was silly, charming, very funny, and fiercely protective of everyone. Her elite guard, all handpicked by Annwyl, were sweet, vicious fighters and blindingly loyal to their queen. ↗

— G.A. Aiken

#reputations #dreams

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#big #big problem #cleaner #corrupt #greece

For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs and do the right thing. I hope I've encouraged other people to do the same. ↗

— Lucy Lawless

#body #do the right thing #encouraged #first #first time

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#candle #easily #finds #flame #light

Citizens, the priority now is to recover trust between the Egyptian - amongst the Egyptians and to have trust and confidence in our economy and international reputation and the fact that the change that we have embarked on will carry on and there's no going back to the old days. ↗

— Hosni Mubarak

#back #between #carry #change #citizens