Petrarch Quotes

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!.

Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!

Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.

It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

At the end of the day, it is about the album and book and also about setting the record straight, because 'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years. So that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

I did not have a reputation to defend.

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Dad has, and had, a deservedly glowing reputation. However, this belief in 'reputation first' seems to have given rise to his fears of what might be rumored after his death.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

I don't think I'll ever get away from my reputation.

We've had a lot of controversy in our career, and it's never been intentional.

Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

The mythology in rock n' roll is that I'm a bit of a loose cannon. Yet I've produced more music than anybody in my generation. So how much of a loose cannon am I? But the general public believes that I'm a loose cannon, so let them believe it. I'm not going to correct them.

The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.

There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation!

An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.

That should be regarded as a loss, which is won at the expense of our reputation.

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

It takes ten times longer to get rid of your reputation than it does to make it.

Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.