Quotes about Reputation

“I am better than my reputation.”

“My reputation is a media creation.”

“My reputation grew with every failure.”

“Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.”

“Reputation are made every day and every minute.”

“Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.”

“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”

“It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.”

“He that has the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.”

“I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.”

“The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.”

“If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.”

“What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.”

“Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.”

“Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.”

“Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.”

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

“We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.”

“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”

“To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.”

“No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.”

“Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down!”

“It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.”

“One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.”

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

“His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.”

“Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.”

“A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”

“The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.”

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.”