29 Top Quotes about Reputation

You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.
-William Shakespeare

 

We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.
-Oswald Chambers

The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character.
-Emma Dunham Kelley Hawkins

It is better to be alone than in bad company.
-George Washington

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

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
-Margaret Mitchell

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.
-Jason Calacanis

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

Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable.
-Baltasar Gracian

A good name is better than bags of gold.
-Miguel de Cervantes

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
-Dwight L. Moody

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

What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.
-Oscar Wilde

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

You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.
-Giuliana Rancic

Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.
-Robert Quillen

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
-Ernest Bramah

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
-J. G. Holland

If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.
-John Kenneth Galbraith

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation.
-Barack Obama

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.
-Peter Benchley

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
-Henry David Thoreau

Reputation is generally proof of how little one knows about a person.
Wes Fesler

Though the boot may fit the foot, one can rarely stand in the tread of his own reputation.
-Wes Fesler

My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.
-William Rosenberg

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
-Pliny the Elder

Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.
-Ashwin Sanghi

 

As your reputation gets bigger, the gaps and chances to go through them get smaller.
-William Aitken