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Quotes About Reputation

We should wash our dirty linen at home.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Image is something you construct, while reputation starts at home. If you are able to pass on solid values to your children, then they can become citizens of the world.
~ Diego Della Valle
"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.
~ George Eliot
When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion.
~ Katy Lederer
Well, maybe at home I don't have the best image.
~ Martina Hingis
I don't want to be one of those people who falls out of cabs drunk. But I don't want to be known as some boring girl who just sits at home and doesn't do anything.
~ Pixie Lott
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
~ William Shakespeare
Be sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.
~ Terry Goodkind
A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.
~ Robert Ruark
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
~ Ed McMahon
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
~ Sallust
What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.
~ Jim Rohn
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
~ Charles Edward Montague
I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.
~ Charlie Munger
Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.
~ William Lyon Phelps
Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable
~ Leo Burnett
'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.
~ Owen Feltham
Donald Trump tweeted out to the world a quote allegedly from Senator Tom Coburn impugning my honesty. Within hours, Tom Coburn came out publicly and said, "That quote was an utter fabrication."
~ Ted Cruz
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
~ Teresa of Avila
I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.
~ Andrew Sullivan
Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.
~ Russell Baker