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I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.

When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

I never had that reputation of being not accessible.

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.

I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president.

I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.