reputation

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.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

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

But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.

I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.

Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do something new.

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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

Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other biases in the selection of the laureates.

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.