Reputation Quotes

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
-Henry Ford

"My reputation grows with every failure."
-George Bernard Shaw

"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 gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
-Socrates

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."
-Oscar Wilde

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
-George Washington

"If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep till noon."
-Irish Proverb

"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed."
-William Shakespeare

"Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation."
-Lawana Blackwell

"A good reputation is more valuable than money."
-Publilius Syrus

"Give me back my reputation!"
-Raymond J. Donovan

"Judge a man by the reputation of his enemies."
-Arabian Proverb

"There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter."
-Charles Caleb Colton

"Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours."
-Brian Koslow

"A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one."
-Lord Jeffery

"The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows."
-Charles M. De Talleyrand

"The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit - a reputation and character."
-John D. Rockefeller

"I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man."
-Sam Houston

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
-George Washington

"Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us. "
-Horace Mann

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

"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
-Epicurus

"Concealed talent brings no reputation."
-Desiderius Erasmus

"Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards."
-Lois McMaster Bujold

"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."
-Lois McMaster Bujold

"I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose."
-Ludwig van Beethoven

"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."
-Jules Renard

"My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life."
-Thomas Kretschmann