Reputations Quotes

“This wasn’t what she expected. Never, in her wildest dreams. This... this was the Blood Queen of Garbhán Isle? Scourge of the Madron lands? Destroyer of Villages? Demon Killer of Women and Children? She who had blood pacts with the darkest of gods? This was Annwyl the Bloody?
Talaith watched, fascinated, as Annwyl held onto Morfyd the Witch’s wrists. Morfyd — the Black Witch of Despair, Killer of the Innocent, Annihilator of Souls, and all around Mad Witch of Garbhán Isle or so she was called on the Madron lands — had actually tried to sneak up on Annwyl to put ointment on the nasty wound the queen had across her face. But as soon as the warrior saw her, she squealed and grabbed hold of her. Now Annwyl lay on her back, Morfyd over her, trying her best to get Annwyl to stop being a ten year old.
“If you just let me—”
“No! Get that centaur shit away from me, you demon bitch!”
“Annwyl, I’m not letting you go home to my brother looking like that. You look horrific.”
“He’ll have to love me in spite of it. Now get off!”
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“Ow!”
“Crybaby.”
No, this isn’t what Talaith expected. Annwyl the Blood Queen was supposed to be a vicious, uncaring warrior bent on revenge and power. She let her elite guard rape and and pillage wherever they went, and she used babies as target practice while their mothers watched in horror. That’s what she was supposed to be and that’s what Talaith expected to find. Instead, she found Annwyl. Just Annwyl. A warrior who spent most of her resting time reading or mooning over her consort. She was silly, charming, very funny, and fiercely protective of everyone. Her elite guard, all handpicked by Annwyl, were sweet, vicious fighters and blindingly loyal to their queen.”
― G.A. Aiken, About a Dragon

“Living up to his reputation as the hottest billionaire in town, Lachlan switched from boyish to devilishly handsome within a blink. With those ocean blue eyes, he offered so many shades of gorgeous I kept forgetting to breathe around him.”
― J.J. Sorel, A Taste of Peace

“It's a matter of dishonour, and when it gets out, which it's bound to, this will be the one act you'll be remembered for. Everything else you achieved will be irrelevant. Your reputation will rest only on this, because ultimately reality is social, it's among others that we have to live and their judgements matter.”
― Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth

“Don't entertain others at the expense of your reputation.”
― Bohdi Sanders, Defensive Living: The Other Side of Self-Defense

“It’s harder to repair a damaged reputation than to build a good one in the first place.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others

“The reality an individual created for themselves during life, and its rippling impact on others is where the decision on the significance of their legacy lies and not in their longevity.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I expect that the 2019 attempt to construct the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea will result in damage to some of the careers of people involved with it and harm the reputations of the associated corporations.”
― Steven Magee

“What saves doctors' reputations is the fact that many illnesses are benign and that people can go on living with a large number of others, the so-called chronic ones, which destroy only slowly.”
― Gabriel Chevallier, Clochemerle-les-Bains [English language]

“When it is not good enough to BE good, and we want people to also THINK we are good, then we are likely to protect our reputations in destructive ways.”
― Sharon Hodde Miller, The Cost of Control: Why We Crave It, the Anxiety It Gives Us, and the Real Power God Promises - Library Edition

“It takes time to build a reputation, but no time to destroy it.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose