Reputation Quotes

Reputation is something that a person carries with him or herself and once your reputation is set in other’s minds it won’t change easily so always be very careful about your reputation because even if you don’t really care about it now, in future you might be in a desperate need for a good reputation and then no one will give it to you if you haven’t made it in earlier years. Here are some quotes from people having realistic approach towards life. See what have these people have said about reputation.

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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
Barbara Ferraro

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
Baltasar Gracian

Reputation is the shell a man discards when he leaves life for immortality. His character he takes with him.
Unknown

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

One may be better than his reputation or his conduct, but never better than his principles.
Niocolas Valentin de Latena

Don`t consider your reputation and you may do anything you like.
Chinese Proverb

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare

A good reputation is more valuable than money.
Publilius Syrus

Concealed talent brings no reputation.
Desiderius Erasmus

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

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.
Anthony J. D’Angelo

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Baltasar Gracian

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
Liz Smith

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides

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.
George Bernard Shaw

I did not have a reputation to defend.
Roman Polanski

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
Matthew Hale

I don’t think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.
Charles Kuralt

It ain’t often that a man’s reputation outlasts his money.
Josh Billings

I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.
David Blunkett

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
Elizabeth I

I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I’m like nails. I will kill.
Calvin Klein

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

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

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

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

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson

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

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry A. Kissinger

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.
Rupert Murdoch

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
Epicurus

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.
Brian Koslow

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
Samuel Butler

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.
John D. Rockefeller

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
Dag Hammarskjold

We’d all like a reputation for generosity, and we’d all like to buy it cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
Margaret Mitchell