- Endowment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reputation Quotes
Built slowly, lost quickly.
These lines reflect on how long reputation takes to build and how quickly it can unravel, a warning meant to change how people act day to day. More on trust is in Good.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with other capitals, I think it is entitled to a distinguished place in this particular.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a competitor. I had that reputation in my time at the WWE. I would walk into a locker room, start wrestling with someone, and all I'd hear is, 'There goes Swagger again.'
- Understand
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is something that everyone has to understand: you don't win anything on your reputation.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Canadians are known for having a social conscience, and so our political leaders need to do more to uphold that reputation on the international stage.
- Being Honest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The risk of being honest can lead to people ostracizing you. It's easier to cling to the persona, the stage, the reputation that people want to see.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
I turned to the novel, an artistic form which had in former days been neglected and had thus acquired a bad reputation, but which during the nineteenth century had developed and elevated itself to the ranks occupied by drama and the ancient epic.
- Drunk
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- Nov 07, 2020