REPUTATION QUOTES
quotations about reputation
Reputation is the road to power.
JEREMY BENTHAM
The Works of Jeremy Bentham
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
MARGARET MITCHELL
Gone With the Wind
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
DOUGLAS JERROLD
Specimens of Jerrold's Wit
How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Othello
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
JOSEPH HALL
attributed, Golden Quotes
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Othello
When a man has once gained a Reputation not even with God's help can he get rid of it.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
A good reputation is like the cypress; once cut, it never puts forth leaf again.
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI
attributed, Day's Collacon
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Country Town Sayings
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
D. L. MOODY
attributed, A Dictionary of Thoughts
At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
ALEXANDER POPE
The Rape of the Lock
Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?
GEORGE ELIOT
Middlemarch
And even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labour under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him; but on the contrary, if they fall any thing below the opinion that is conceived of him, though they might raise the reputation of another, they are a diminution to his.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, No. 256
It's not who you know that matters--it's who knows you that's important. Personal branding builds up your reputation to the point where you have a presence even in your absence.
JAROD KINTZ
This Book is Not For Sale
Reputation is made in a moment. Character is built in a lifetime.
ANONYMOUS
There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation!
KING STANISLAUS OF POLAND
The Universal Magazine, Volume 97
A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
BIBLE
Proverbs 22:1
Reputation is an interpretation, more or less accurate, of character.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought