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"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."
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"The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price."
"I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways."
"We do not have the right to make the name of God look bad by our pitiful and impoverished existence."
"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."
"Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left."
"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls:Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he that filches from me my good nameRobs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed."
"What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than begin talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion."
"If you terminate a person from your life who is very toxic towards your reputation, you can actually lead yourself pertaining a career that you desire without any interference."
"The company you keep determines how others view you. Identify with mediocrity and you will be labeled sub par. Collaborate with questionable people and your reputation becomes suspect. Guilt by association can end a career, hurt your business and cost you friends. Choose alliances wisely or you may be condemned for someone else's sins."
"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."
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"Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not."
"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend."
"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."
"Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime."
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