Repute Quotes

Your reputation is still the most important thing that you've got.

He is not seldom a dealer, by wholesale or retail, in spirituous liquors; sometimes a lawyer, sometimes an editor. He is always ready with his money subscription to the church, but seldom goes to church, He lies up on Sunday, after the toils of the week, reading a sporting journal or a police gazette. He has a ready rowdy sort of rhetoric, and is never at a loss, when called on, to propose or second a resolution. He is particularly savage on England, and grows quite pathetic, unprepared as he is, at the mere mention of " the old land." A fair share of mother wit-a sufficient stock of spending-money, and a vast deal of brass- complete the equipment of this very active, very important, and much courted individual.

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

I have built a very good reputation in India and a lot of Indians respect me.

Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good.

Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.