Reputation Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Names, Shining, Lamps

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “Essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson [by Arthur Murphy] Poems. Rasselas, prince of Abissinia. Letters”, p.380

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• There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Two, Rogues

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.115

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• I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  May, Chance, Raises

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 667-68, Iphigenia auf Tauris, II. 1. 140, 1922.

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• For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bears, Strolling, Doubtful

  "Hermann and Dorothea". Poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, VII. 93, October 1797.

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• That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Men, Knaves, Kind

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

  Douglas William Jerrold

  People, Lasts, Cloaks

  Douglas William Jerrold (1860). “The Brownrigg Papers”, p.394

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• A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

  William Hazlitt

  Lying, Men, Mercy

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.487

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• We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Education, Spiritual

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Kavanagh: A Tale”, p.3

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• A good name is better than bags of gold.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Names, Gold, Bags

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1866). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.508

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• My reputation is a media creation.

  John Lydon

  Media, Creation

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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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• The Marines fought almost solely on esprit de corps, I was certain. It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let another Marine down, or that they could be responsible for dimming the bright reputation of their Corps. The Marines simply assumed that they were the world's best fighting men.

  Robert Sherrod

  Military, Fighting, Marine

  Robert Sherrod (2013). “Tarawa: The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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 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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• If you pay too much attention to your reputation, you could lose your character.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Attention, Pay

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• Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.

  Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

  Character, Soul, May

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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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• 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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• 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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