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Letter "R" » reputation
«The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.»
Author: Epicurus
| About:
Adversity,
Overcoming
| Keywords:
difficulty, gain, glory, greater, pilots, reputation, skillful, storming, storms, surmount, surmounted, surmounting, tempests, The Tempest
«The reputation of a man is like his shadow: it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size»
«You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.»
«You don't build a reputation on what you're going to do»
«The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
appear, endeavor, endeavored, gain, reputation
«Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly -- a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
came, commit, cost, costing, created, creditable, effected, effecting, effects, folly, grotesque, grotesques, human race, in place, lark, larks, least, must have, observe, race, regret, reputation, The Larks, to that effect
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