Top 540 Reputation Quotes

W. E. B Dubois used the NAACP platform for two decades to discredit the character, reputation, and fund-raising efforts of capitalist and Tuskegee University founder, Booker T. Washington.

On the road to the GOP nomination, Trump earned the reputation as a good debater by slandering and bullying his opponents, knocking them out with cheap shots and lies. On a crowded stage, Trump got away with these deplorable tactics.

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.

I’ve been enormously fortunate. People say, ‘How do you feel about your reputation?’ My real belief is that I have exactly the reputation I deserve… on the whole, I feel comfortable with myself.

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

We have a long history of our reputation speaking for itself.

The NBA has prided itself on free expression. Its players and owners have a well-earned reputation for speaking out on social justice in the United States. Sadly, it seems woke capitalism stops at the water’s edge.

Ultimately as a leader, you’re evaluated on how you interact with people. If you do it well, you develop a reputation as effective leader. If you don’t, you develop a reputation for being a highly ineffective leader.

I’m very grateful for being in this band, but there are only five people who know what it’s like to be in the Strokes. I’m part of ‘them,’ but I can see people trying to separate me out from the band’s reputation.

I feel like my music has a reputation for being pretty serious or whatnot, but I like having fun.

Libel law was developed to protect the reputations of individuals, not corporations.

If Anglo feels it hasn’t done enough damage to me already by taking my money, my company, my reputation, if they want to finish it off by putting me in prison, then so be it – I’ll accept that.

When it comes to building your business and developing a powerful network, you’ll want to develop a reputation as someone who highlights others. Not only does this give credit where credit is due, it also communicates that you’re secure with your success and have the ability to promote others in your industry.

It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.

As a negotiator, you should strive for a reputation of being fair. Your reputation precedes you. Let it precede you in a way that paves success.

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.

I’ve made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. There’s a real sense of stoicism and pragmatism and strength and lyricism of a woman like that.

They come together like the Coroner’s Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

How an individual’s reputation is protected online is too important and subtle a policy matter to be legislated by a high court, which is institutionally mismatched to the evolving intricacies of the online world.

I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress.

Because at the end of the day, you really only have one reputation and one shot, and once you kind of get that bad reputation and don’t have some good results, then it’s kind of over. It’s really hard to build it back.

When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.

For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness the 9/11 ‘truthers’ who, lacking any evidence whatsoever, claim that 9/11 was a Bush administration plot.

Image is something you construct, while reputation starts at home. If you are able to pass on solid values to your children, then they can become citizens of the world.

Gamergate gave birth to a new kind of celebrity troll, men who made money and built their careers by destroying women’s reputations.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

I’ve never come into anything successful before. I’ve always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.

Ads get a bad reputation sometimes because they’re not useful. They’re not relevant, or slow.

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

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.

President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

I think my reputation is pretty fair among the drivers. The drivers know what they get when they see me or talk to me – if they get the chance to talk to me, because some of them I just don’t talk to because I don’t like them, so they should know.

Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with other capitals, I think it is entitled to a distinguished place in this particular.

That’s the thing: pop music has sometimes had a bad reputation for being about a lot of other stuff than the music. And I am just a lover of pop music. I love pop. I love big choruses. Dramatic choruses – they’re the best thing in the world. And I do this because I love making music and performing the songs.

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

I’ve never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.

I have to be responsible with my character, my image and my reputation.

On the strength of Vonnegut’s reputation, ‘Breakfast of Champions’ spent a year on the best-seller lists, proving that he could indeed publish anything and make money.

My dad is Dominican, my mother’s Puerto Rican, and I got into bachata at the age of 10 or 11. When I started listening, it had a reputation for being music for hick people. I thought that had to be changed. I was born and raised in the Bronx, and I knew you make something cool if you’re cool.

My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.

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.

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

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

President Obama’s FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, has a reputation in D.C. of being a ‘tepid’ regulator. From reports of his net neutrality proposal, he’s living up to that reputation.

The newspapers had described me as the Jagger of the Aga. It wasn’t hard living up to the reputation.

I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.

At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and ‘Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology.

There is this cat and mouse game that plays out over time where our team comes up with new and interesting ideas to identify content that we shouldn’t recommend, and over time people are constantly probing that, trying to figure out how can they get around that and get a better reputation on Yelp.

For me, I had that reputation as being a guy that did a lot of stuff early on in my career, but to me, at the time I needed to do that in order to be noticed. Eventually, my style evolved and started making it to where every match wasn’t about a dive outside of the ring.

Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.

The filmmaker is really important to me: it could be their first film; it’s not just about their reputation, but I have to really believe in them.