Quotes About Reputation

We should know that the degradation of a nation always comes from division, which results in the loss of the country's reputation.

The ethics of excellence require a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment, do you mortgage the future? What happens if you put your reputation at risk . . . and lose the bet?

The punishment of a liar is that he is never believed, even when he speaks the truth.

A person with a bad name is already half-hanged.

Good things sell themselves; those that are bad have to be advertised.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

What is left when honor is lost

Rumor is not always wrong.

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

Take heed that if you deceive, lie, intrigue, cheat, you thereby demean yourself. belittle yourself, confess your own weakness beforehand, play the part of the slave of the harem who feels himself the inferior of his master. Do this if it so pleases you, but know that humanity will regard you as petty, contemptible and feeble, and treat you as such. Having no evidence of your strength, it will act towards you as one worthy of pity — and pity only.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

I did not know that a reputation for wit is earned not by making jokes, but by laughing at the pleasantries of others.

The increased scale of your operations will lend you respectability.

Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.

I will sit here but an hour or two, then leave." I yawn. "So very long as that?" When he answers, there is a wry note in his voice. "I do have my reputation to protect.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

With every trade we make, comment we leave, person we flag, badge we earn, we leave a reputation trail.

Reputation is a prize you've won for yourself with self-denial and hard work. If you throw it away, what have you left to fall back on? How will you contrive to live without it?" -p. 198

As a Republican governor, a senator, or member of Congress, or as a Republican candidate, let me remind you: You're known by the company you keep. By associating yourself with or endorsing Trump, you own Trump's toxic radioactivity with voters outside his base.

The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.

The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.