Definition of Reputation

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Reputation

The estimation in which one is held; character in public opinion; the character attributed to a person, thing, or action; repute.

The character imputed to a person in the community in which he lives. It is admissible in evidence when he puts his character in issue, or when such reputation is otherwise part of the issue of a case.

Specifically: Good reputation; favorable regard; public esteem; general credit; good name.

Account; value.

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Reputation Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Reputation Translations

reputation in Danish is rygte
reputation in Dutch is reputatie, faam, roep, naam
reputation in German is Ansehen {n}
reputation in Swedish is anseende, rykte

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