Showing posts with label reputation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reputation. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 02, 2019

Post #2733

He who loses credit, what has he left that can avail him?
—Publilius Syrus

Thursday, August 30, 2018

Post #2644

The reputation of a man is like his shadow,—gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows.
—Talleyrand

Monday, July 30, 2018

Post #2621

It is a wretched thing to lean on the reputation of others, lest the pillars being withdrawn the roof should fall in ruins.
—Juvenal

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Post #2368

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
—Josiah Gilbert Holland

Monday, May 08, 2017

Post #2331

The man who talketh much and never acteth will not be held in reputation by anyone.
—FirdausÄ«

Friday, September 30, 2016

Post #2175

An honest man is believed without an oath, for his reputation swears for him.
—Eliza Cook

Friday, February 19, 2016

Post #2015

It is not your posterity, but your actions, that will perpetuate your memory.
 —Napoleon Bonaparte

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Post #1944

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
—Socrates

Monday, September 08, 2014

Post #1636

Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.
—Sir Francis Bacon

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Post #1508

A good name once lost is seldom, if ever, regained.
—John Foster

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Post #1435

And whatever you lend, let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again, and, if you can contrive to do without it, you had better never have been born.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Post #1402

Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.
—Publilius Syrus

Monday, July 01, 2013

Post #1287

Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.
—Lord Chesterfield 

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Post #1174

Life is for one generation; a good name is forever.
—Japanese Proverb

Friday, October 26, 2012

Post #1095


Not what I have but what I do is my kingdom.
—Thomas Carlyle

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

On Reputation

A gold talent is round, and dynamic. In our lifetime it can roll to us and away from us. But our reputation is flat, and static. It sticks with us everywhere we go.

Thursday, November 03, 2011

Post #759

A good reputation is more valuable than money.
—Publilius Syrus

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Post #284

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
—Logan Pearsall Smith

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Post #232

Glass, china, and reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.
—Benjamin Franklin

Monday, February 08, 2010

Post #130

Act uprightly, and despise calumny;
Dirt may stick to a mud wall,
But not to polished marble.
—Poor Richard's Almanac

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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