Reputation Quotes

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

Character, Real, Tree

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden

Character, Others, While

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

Takes, Five, Build

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

Good, Men, Alone

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson

Him, Carry, Presidency

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

Good, Bad, Lose

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
John F. Kennedy

War, Today, Same

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

Lost, False, Deserving

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

Good, Death, Live

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Baltasar Gracian

Integrity, Single, Lie

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Jim Rohn

Great, Joy, Service

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

Good, Desire, Gain

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw

Thinking, Made, Two

My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard

Character, Street, Met

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

Women, God, Men

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Voltaire

Time, Men, Alone

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry A. Kissinger

Bad, Give, Percent

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Warren Buffett

Business, Bad, Economics

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

May, Eyes, Broken

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
Carroll O'Connor

Men, Fail, Pictures

A good reputation is more valuable than money.
Publilius Syrus

Good, Money, Valuable

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Clever, Hated, Shrewd

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Epictetus

Greater, Storms, Glory

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin

Generosity, Cheap, Buy

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
Samuel Butler

Health, Money, Happen

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Women, Nothing, Quiet

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope, Liar, Universal

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Isaac Asimov

Obvious, Pays, Subtlety

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