Reputation

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

—Dwight L. Moody

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

—Henry Ford

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

—Dag Hammarskjöld

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

—Jules Renard

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

—Margaret Mitchell

It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

—Nic Pizzolatto

When do I stop? When I'm twenty-five? Thirty? Thirty-five? Forty? Or right this minute? Nobody tells you how long you should keep doing something before you give up forever.

—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

—Socrates

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.

—Charles Caleb Colton

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

—Lawana Blackwell

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.

—Lord Jeffery

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

—Oscar Wilde

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

—Publilius Syrus