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Letter "R" » Reputation
«The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to»
«The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit - a reputation and character.»
Author: John D. Rockefeller
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| About:
Men,
Reputation
| Keywords:
credit, establish, young man
«Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.»
Author: Myrtle Reed
| About:
Reputation,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
reputation, reserve, reserves, reserving, silence, wisdom
«Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.»
«There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.»
Author: Brian Koslow
| About:
Advertising,
Reputation
| Keywords:
advertisement, fast, positive, reputation, traveling
«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»
«There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Praise,
Reputation
| Keywords:
abused, abusing, accompanied, accompanying, Establishing, former, invariably, latter, modes, praised, rogues, secure
«The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
blaze, blazed, blazes, blown, considered, lamps, names, perpetual, shine, socket, unconsumed
«The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
afford, clay, gild, gilded, gilding, gilds, loam, mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men, painted, purest, spotless, treasure
«Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
bearded, bubble, cannon, cannons, jealous, oaths, quarrel
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