Quotes about Reputation
I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.
- Thomas Jefferson
I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth.
- GK Chesterton
Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.
- Publilius Syrus
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
- Vernon Howard
If you believe in others and give them a positive reputation to uphold, you can help them to become better than they think they are.
- John Maxwell
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
- William Hazlitt
I overhear the Manyuema telling each other that I am the "good one." I have no slaves, and I owe this character to the propagation of a good name by the slaves of Zanzibar, who are anything but good themselves.
- David Livingstone
You cannot build God's reputation if you aren't willing to risk yours.
- Mark Batterson
A good character is the best tombstone.
- Charles Spurgeon
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