Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

After the door of a womans heart has once swung on its silent hinges a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

If we all tried to make other peoples paths easy our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

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

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

The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down.

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

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

But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.

As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

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.

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

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.

That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

Their families helped them realize that there was more out there for them. These students came to Delaware State because of its inexpensive tuition, closeness to home, and solid reputation.

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

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

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

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.

I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

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

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.

They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.

I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after my reputation.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.