Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is manufactured; character is grown. Reputation is your photograph; There is a vast difference between character and reputation. Reputation is what men think we are; character is what God knows us to be. Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is the breath of men; character is the inbreathing of the eternal God. One may for a time have a good reputation and a bad character, or the reverse ; but not for long.
Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!
When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.
You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.
It is not for us to give an assessment to what happened, but in our opinion the reputation of British science, the reputation of the British government, and the reputation of the title 'Sir' has sustained heavy damage.
There is a difference between image and reputation. Image is nice. Reputation is developed over an entire career. Reputation is what I'm searching for.
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
I'm not bragging, but my reputation among my peers was Bruno was a horse I never got tired.
I think the United States is mindful of its reputation for its democracy and rule of law, and if they are willing to risk that reputation by extraditing me based on the request and claims made by Turkey, I would never say no. I would go willingly.
Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.
If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private.
I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.
I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have.
Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.