The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

I used to bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks, Sugar Ray Leonard. I used to bodyguard a lot of diamond merchants; I would travel with a suitcase full of diamonds and take them from point A to point B. My reputation grew because I was a professional. I did my job, and I was courteous – a no-nonsense guy.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

I’ve been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

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

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Good luck has its storms.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

I don’t think I’m supposed to boss other people around just because I’m a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I’ve seen it happen. I don’t call those people out – they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

My reputation precedes me now.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That’s the pitch. We’ll see.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.