REPUTATION QUOTES

quotations about reputation

Reputation quote

Reputation is the road to power.

JEREMY BENTHAM

The Works of Jeremy Bentham

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

DOUGLAS JERROLD

Specimens of Jerrold's Wit


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

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How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

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

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Othello

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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.

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

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When a man has once gained a Reputation not even with God's help can he get rid of it.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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

FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

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A good reputation is more valuable than money.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Maxims

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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

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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

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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

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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


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


Reputation is made in a moment. Character is built in a lifetime.

ANONYMOUS


A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.

BIBLE

Proverbs 22:1

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Reputation is an interpretation, more or less accurate, of character.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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