Reputation - Quotes

A good reputation is more valuable than money. - Publilius Syrus

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

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

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. - James Lowell

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs. - Anthony D'Angelo

Do you want to injure someone’s reputation? Don’t speak ill of him, speak too well. - Andre Siegfried

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

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

However much of time, labour, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as much to maintain it. One who has written a good book, is expected on all occasions to "talk like a book." Or, if one has achieved an act of heroism, he is expected to perform acts of heroism for the edification of all who approach him. There are people who can never believe they see a lion unless they hear him roar. - Christian Nestell Bovee

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

If you value your reputation, then make sure you are the same person in public as you are behind closed doors because one day those doors may open unexpectedly, revealing your true self. - Unknown

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

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. - Epicurus

The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him; sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size. - Unknown

There are some wounds given to reputation that are like the wounds of an envenomed arrow; where we irritate and enlarge the orifice while we extract the bearded weapon; yet cannot the cure be completed otherwise. - William Shenstone

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. - Charles Caleb Colton

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