Top 52 Reputation Quotes

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It takes a long time to build a reputation; however, in the blink of an eye, you can lose it. With that in mind, check out the top 52 reputation quotes.

#52 – 50. Reputation Quotes

52. What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. – Edward W. Howe

51. No man can understand why a woman shouldn’t prefer a good reputation to a good time. – Helen Rowland

50. The average person’s ear weighs what you are, not what you were. – Francis Quarles

Reputation hangs a man. – Arias

#49 – 40. Reputation Quotes

49. Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what the reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character. – Wayne W. Dyer

48. Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. – Thomas Paine

47. Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. – Margaret Mitchell

46. To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

45. 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. – Charles Caleb Colton

44. Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers. – Elizabeth Arden

43. Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters. – Washington Allston

42. 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. – Samuel Johnson

41. You’re not born with a walk like that. You have to earn it. – Donna Ball

40. It is better to be alone than in bad company. – George Washington

#39 – 30. Reputation Quotes

39. 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

38. Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. – Lord Jeffrey

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

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

35. Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. – Liz Smith

34. Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others. – Douglas Jerrold

33. A man can get a reputation from very small things. – Sophocles

32. As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement. – Joseph Conrad

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

30. When a man has once gained a Reputation not even with God’s help can he get rid of it. – Abraham Miller

#29 – 20. Reputation Quotes

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

28. Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. – Abraham Lincoln

27. I’d like people to think of me as someone who cares about them. – Princess of Wales Diana

26. At ev’ry word a reputation dies. – Alexander Pope

25. A good reputation is more valuable than money. – Publilius Syrus

24. The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously and have somebody find out. – Oscar Wilde

23. He who worries about reputation, has a reputation to worry about. – Edwin Leibfreed

22. 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. – Charles Caleb Colton

21. How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! – Oliver Wendell Holmes

20. If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me. – Dwight L. Moody

Concealed talent brings no reputation. – Desiderius Erasmus

#19 – 10. Reputation Quotes

19. Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. – Margaret Mitchell

18. Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. – George Washington

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

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

15. My reputation grows with every failure. – George Bernard Shaw

14. How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations! – Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

13. 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

12. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity. – John B. Gough

11. Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it. – Orson Scott Card

10. Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. – St. Evermond

#9 – 1. Reputation Quotes

9. A good reputation is like the cypress; once cut, it never puts forth leaf again. – Francesco Guicciardini

8. At every word a reputation dies. – Alexander Pope

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

6. He that has the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon. – James Howell

5. A good name is better than precious ointment. – Ecclesiastes 7:1

4. The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

3. 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

2. Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well. – Benjamin Franklin

1. Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down! – Henry Rink

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