Top 1200 Image And Reputation Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

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

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?

For more than 15 years, Mogwai has built a reputation on its monstrous ambitions for rock music.

SoftBank's $100 million investment helped cement our reputation as a start-up with a promise.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

My commercial viability, coupled with my reputation, gives me enough freedom to assert my right as a composer.

After I did 'Private Benjamin,' suddenly the reputation was that Goldie Hawn calls her own shots.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

All of depiction is fiction, it's only a question of degree. When we think of images, such as the signing of the declaration of independence, we think of that wonderful John Trumbull painting Declaration of Independence that is at the Yale Art Gallery and on the back of our money. When we think of that historical moment we think of that image. That image never happened like that. All of those people were never in that room together to sign that paper. It's a beautiful fiction to help us have an understanding of what went on.

How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.

I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.

Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

Christians ought to have a reputation for being the most dependable people at work. They are always aware of who their true boss is.

As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.

The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.

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

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

My whole reputation and creative thought as a novelist is really wrapped around Harry Bosch, so he's near and dear.

I just get this reputation of being a bad teammate, but no one would come in and tell me why.

If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.

I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.

My reputation will always precede me to the day I die. For some people, that probably can't be quickly enough.

Even though I've got this really brawny, masculine reputation, I'm a Shondaland Thursdays kind of guy.

Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.

Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.

Though the boot may fit the foot, one can rarely stand in the tread of his own reputation.

The biggest danger of this terrorism and extremism is the tarnishing of the reputation of our beloved religion... We will not allow this to happen.

I am just a young black man living my dream, people are trying to smear my reputation.

The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.

A Christian woman's true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate...humble obedience...but that gate leads out into a largeness of life undreamed of by the liberators of the world, to a place where the God-given differentiation between the sexes is not obfuscated but celebrated, where our inequalities are seen as essential to the image of God, for it is in male and female, in male as male and female as female, not as two identical and interchangeable halves, that the image is manifested.

... Nothing resembles reality less than the photograph. Nothing resembles substance less than its shadow. To convey the meaning of something substantial you have to use not a shadow but a sign, not the limitation but the image. The image is a new and different reality, and of course it does not convey an impression of some object, but the mind of the subject; and that is something else again.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

There isn't any (afterlife), you dingbat! This is it, baby! Enjoy, carefully! Religion is such a medieval idea. Don't get me started. I have thought about every facet of religion and I can't buy any of it. So God made man in His own image? It's just the other way around. Man made God in his own image. It's all about money.

In-N-Out Burger has a well-known and long standing reputation as a corporation that is operated with a Christian message and philosophy.

For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.

Some people have called me arrogant or believe that is my reputation, which is far from what I really am like.

Words matter, particularly when you're writing a story that could significantly damage a person's or an organization's reputation.

I feel like I'm going to have a long career and you don't want to get a bad reputation for certain things.

I do not want to gain a reputation for lacking discipline because I always look to play within the laws.

Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.

What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

China cares about its reputation and doesn't want to be known as the nation whose preferences drove the extinction of elephants.

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.

We have been successful in buying and selling companies because we have a reputation of fulfilling deal terms in letter and spirit.

I sell architecture better and more directly and more vividly than the architect does... The average architect is stupid. He doesn't know how to sell. He's not a merchandiser. He doesn't know how to express his own image. He doesn't know how to create a design of his image... And I do it. I've done it all my career over half a century, and it gets better.

If we want to be known in heaven and feared in hell we must be willing to lose our reputation here on earth.

As your reputation gets bigger, the gaps and chances to go through them get smaller.

Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.

I have not a clue why they sent it to me. As far as I know I have not got a reputation as a receiver of stolen goods.

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

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.

I'm excited to contribute towards U.S.A. Basketball's winning legacy and continuing its tremendous reputation around the world.

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.