Quotations Weblog

Ah, Oscar Wilde! He says the things that seem so witty and funny, but the more I think about them, the more I realize that they are the truth laughing right along with me.

He’s right. I CAN survive everything except death. If I’m still alive, I’m going to be fighting it and going strong, even if I’m paraplegic, I’m going to be there just like Christopher Reeve. I’ll keep going until death slips its icy fingers around my throat. You can’t stop me.

“Live down everything except a good reputation.”

That idea is what I thought was the joke, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that he was telling the truth. Once you’ve worked so hard to earn a good reputation, it IS difficult to live it down. You can make a lot of mistakes and still have a good reputation. It takes gross incompetency to live down a good reputation and even then, people will still believe in you.

So, when you’re making those important decisions in your life like whether you should do a little overtime at work or not, go with the choice that builds up your good reputation. Once you earn one, it will be hard to live it down.