Quotes About Reputation

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

Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

A person's reputation is a mixture of what his friends, enemies, and relatives say behind his back.

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.

Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.

If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hardbeaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself.

We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.

Words gain credibility by deed.

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

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

A bull does not enjoy fame in two herds.