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"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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"It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it."
"Communicating negatively (gossiping, bragging, bullying, and criticizing) can be disastrous to your reputation, cause you to lose the respect of others, and leave a terrible impression. Why leave this essential expertise up to chance when it can make or break the success of your relations?"
"If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty."
"That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!"
"Like it or not, your life-what works well and what doesn't-is largely the result of the first impressions you have created along the way."
"You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending."
"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 have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."
"A person's reputation can be appealing towards others if he or she understands the great values of ethical behavior."
"The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price."
Explore more quotes by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for."
"The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows."
"Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters."
"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."
"What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits."
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