Quotes about Reputation

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

You cannot build God's reputation if you aren't willing to risk yours.

When we violate our conscience by compromising our integrity, we put our reputation at risk. We also become our own advocate because we step outside the boundaries of God's good, pleasing, and perfect will. But when we obey God, we come under the umbrella of His protective authority. He is our Advocate. And it's His reputation that is at stake. If we don't give the Enemy a foothold, God won't let him touch a hair on our head.

It's not my name that's at stake.

Success is when those who know you best respect you most.

God created the church, we have said, so that it might increasingly reflect the character of God as it's been revealed in his Word. In keeping with the storyline of the entire Bible, then, church discipline is the act of excluding an individual who carelessly brings disrepute onto the gospel and shows no commitment to doing otherwise.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.

Trump, in a smart move, picked up his media reputation and relocated it from a hypercritical New York to a more value-free Hollywood, becoming the star of his own reality show, The Apprentice, and embracing a theory that would serve him well during his presidential campaign: in flyover country, there is no greater asset than celebrity. To be famous is to be loved—or at least fawned over.

Have I placed more value on my status or title than on my character? What perceptions do I have about myself, other people, and the world? Are they aligned with my purpose? Do they reflect the values I claim to have? What is my true nature, apart from my reputation? What values will I refuse to deny because, to do so, I would violate my ideals and ethics?