Reputation Quotes

A good reputation is more valuable than money. (Publilius Syrus)
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is the tree is the real thing. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. View quote
Jules Renard
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. View quote
Henry Ford
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. View quote
Margaret Mitchell
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. View quote
Isaac Asimov
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. View quote
Warren Buffett
Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are. (John Wooden)
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. View quote
William Shakespeare
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
At ev'ry word a reputation dies. View quote
Alexander Pope
I am better than my reputation. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company. View quote
George Washington
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation - unfairly. View quote
Mario Cuomo
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry. View quote
Mark Twain
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. (Elbert Hubbard)
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. View quote
John F. Kennedy
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit - a reputation, character. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. View quote
Margaret Mitchell
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. View quote
Epictetus