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Mae West

When I'm good I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Topic: Reputation

More Quotes from Mae West

He that hesitates is a damn fool. — Mae West

More on Reputation

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. — Will Rogers

Honesty Integrity Reputation Truth Values

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. — Abraham Lincoln

Action Reputation

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute. — Will Rogers

Honesty Honor Reputation Respect

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

Money Reputation

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered. — Merikare

Character Love Reputation

We are all something, but none of us are everything. — Blaise Pascal

Reputation Self

Where there was a skunk there is a smell. — African Proverb

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. — Margaret Mead

Action Communication Reputation

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. — William Shakespeare

Character Reputation

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile. — William Shakespeare

It is with literature as with law or empire—an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession. — Edgar Allan Poe

The ornament of a house is the people who frequent it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship Reputation

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

Character Leadership Quality Reputation

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. — Elbert Hubbard

A reputation for good judgement, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune. — Henry Ward Beecher

Persuasion Reputation Truth

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it. — Harvey Mackay

He, of course, is a liar, but that doesn’t really matter because, if you know liars are liars, it comes to the same thing. — Agatha Christie

Character Honesty Reputation Truth

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. — William Shakespeare

Character Integrity Reputation Truth

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true. — Logan Pearsall Smith

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. — Lord Chesterfield

Reputation Wisdom

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others. — Francis Bacon

Character Fear Leadership Reputation Self Self-esteem Truth

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Change Character Judgment Leadership Reputation

I have never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man. — Thomas Jefferson

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. — Thomas Jefferson

Character Integrity Leadership Reputation

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