Reputation Quotes

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

  Dwight L. Moody

  Leadership, Character, Care

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• It is better to be alone than in bad company.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Friendship, Lonely

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• 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

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Jim Rohn

  Responsibility, Sacrifice, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 06, 2015

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  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

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Character is much easier kept than recovered.

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Integrity, War

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.190

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Character, Deeds Done

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• 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

  Inspirational, Success, Honesty

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fine China, Broken, Communicators

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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

  Positive, Eye, Character

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• My reputation grows with every failure.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Failure, Learning From Failure, Grows

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• Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Leadership, Character, Thinking

  Ashwin Sanghi (2010). “Chanakya's Chant”, p.62, Westland

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• A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Truth, Integrity, Lying

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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• Character is what you are in the dark.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Inspirational Life, Humorous

  Attributed in "D.L. Moody" by William R. Moody, (p. 503), 1930.

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• SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.

  Graeme Murphy

  Stage, Live Music

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• For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.
  [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bears, Strolling, Doubtful

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• He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.

  Ben Jonson

  Courses, Sells

  Ben Jonson (1752). “Every Man in His Humour: A Comedy. Written by Ben Jonson. With Alterations and Additions. As it is Perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane”, p.3

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• The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

  Ben Jonson

  Honesty, Men, Two

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.866

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• The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name.

  George Herbert

  Dark, Names, Doubt

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• The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Two, Literature, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.235

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• The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Atheist, Technology, Years

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.208, New Directions Publishing

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• Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Ninety Nine, Giving, Political

  "The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, 1984.

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

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Generosity, Giving

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.96, BookBaby

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• It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

  Pliny the Elder

  Shameful, Loses, Image And Reputation

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• 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

  Success, Stress, Ignorance

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