Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Reputation.

The repository contains 43 quotes in the category “Reputation.”
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Pearl S. Buck
1892 — 1973

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Ralph Ellison
1914 — 1994

If you care about what people think about you, how will you ever know how you feel about you?

Rebecca Fisher

Yesterday I cared about what people said about me. Today I will ignore what people say about me. Tomorrow I will tell those people to shove it.

Pirin Gee

Be who you are and say what you feel‘cause people who mind don’t matter, and people who matter don’t mind.

Dr. Seuss
1904 — 1991

What you do in life echoes in eternity.

Gladiator

Nicknames stick to people and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

Thomas C. Haliburton
1796 — 1865

The invisible thing called a good name is made up of the breadth of numbers that speak well of you.

Lord Halifax
1881 — 1959

On Albert Belle:

Very few people will bother to say goodbye to a guy who almost never said hello.

Dan Patrick
1957 —     

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Jules Renard
1864 — 1910

The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way, they remember you.

Josef von Sternberg
1894 — 1969

They only recognize greatness when some authority confirms it.

Bill Watterson
1958 —     

Eccentricity is such a badge of honour to be given in these conformist times.

Vivienne Westwood
1941 —     

The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.

Casey Stengel
1890 — 1975

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do.

Booker T. Washington
1856 — 1915

I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not.

Unknown

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

President Harry S Truman
1884 — 1972

The greatest compliment one can receive is to have others around you wanting to be like you.

Unknown

Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.

Yogi Berra
1925 —     

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865

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