Famous Quotes about Reputation (46 Quotations)

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

Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

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

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

Reputation are made every day and every minute.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

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

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

Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down!

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

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.

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.