R Quotes
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“Repudiation reinforces beliefs.”
Source: In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
“Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability
To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here”
“Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.”
“Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.”
“Reputation and influence must be earned. Social media is the quickest way to show your audience how good you are.”
“Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.”
“Reputation is a false mask for the loudest sound of merit”
“Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.”
Source: The Letters of Mark Twain
“Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.”
“Reputation is a very interesting thing, and I always give people the benefit of the doubt, and I think that there's a part of all of us, especially in a generation where a lot of the stuff gets recorded.”
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”
“Reputation is an invisible force that works for or against you based on the efforts you put to persevere building your character”
“Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset.”
Source: Crisis, Issues and Reputation Management: A Handbook for PR and Communications Professionals
“Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.”
“Reputation is everything when it comes to building a digital brand”
“Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.”
Source: From the Easy Chair
“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.”
“Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.”
“Reputation is generally proof of how little one knows about a person.”
“Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.”
“Reputation is made in a moment; Character is built over a lifetime.”
“Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.”
Source: THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS.
“Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.”
“Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is manufactured; character is grown. Reputation is your photograph; There is a vast difference between character and reputation. Reputation is what men think we are; character is what God knows us to be. Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is the breath of men; character is the inbreathing of the eternal God. One may for a time have a good reputation and a bad character, or the reverse ; but not for long.”
“Reputation is so important that one should not ruin it on social media.”
“Reputation Is Temporary..As Much as The Man Owning Your Reputation Is”
“Reputation is the newest capital, invest in it.”
“Reputation is the road to power”
Source: The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”
“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
“Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody knows that but you.”
“Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.”
Source: Wooden's Complete Guide to Leadership (EBOOK BUNDLE)
“Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.”
“Reputation is what people expect us to do next. It's their expectation of the quality and character of the next thing we produce or say or do.
We control our actions (even when it feels like we don't) and our actions over time (especially when we think no one is looking) earn our reputation.”
“Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
“Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away.”
“Reputation matters. But sometimes it all starts with one thing — being honest with yourself.
Chapter 52”
Source: Voluntary pain
“Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.”
“Reputation never has very much to do with reality. I could name half a dozen paragons of virtue that are horrible, small-souled, evil people. And some of the best men I know, you'd walk out of the room if you heard their names. No one on the screen is who they are when you breathe their air.
Chrisjen Avasarala”
Source: Caliban’s War
“Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.”
“Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided.”
Source: Wisdom of the Daoist Masters: The Works of Lao Zi (Lao Tzu), Lie Zi (Lieh Tzu), Zhuang Zi (Chuang Tzu)
“Reputation shows who people think you are. Character shows who you really are.”
“Reputation will become an even more important currency in the future.”
“Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.”
“Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!”
“Reputation, you know – a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy.”
“Reputations are maintained by the outside world, and they're created by it, too, by and large. And they serve as a hell of a device for privacy, because the more people look for something that's not there, the less chance they have of violating who you are. It's like going out there with a mask on, without having to exercise your upper body to put it on.”
“Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.”
“Reputations do not win matches and trophies, only goals can do that”
“Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.”