Motivational Quotes

Reputation

The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples -- do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings -- don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Reputation

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

William Shakespeare

My reputation is a media creation.

Rotten, John Lydon

Rohn, Jim

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!

Shakespeare, William

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.

Lord Jeffery

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

Graves, Robert

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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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

Hall, Joseph

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

Pliny The Elder

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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

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Reputation are made every day and every minute.

Ruel, Christopher

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.

Lamb, Charles

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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A good reputation is more valuable than money.

Publilius Syrus

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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.

25.

The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Margaret Mitchell

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A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions.

Spruance, Raymond

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Gough, John B.

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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Reputations will continue to be made by many acts and be lost by one.

33.

A good name is better than precious ointment. [Ecclesiastes 7:1]

Bible

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It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.

35.

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

Howell, James

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Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.

William Shakespeare

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

Quarles, Francis

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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

Evermond, St.

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The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

William Shakespeare

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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.

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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

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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My reputation grew with every failure.

Shaw, George Bernard

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William Shakespeare