Reputation Quotes

“Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.”

“It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.”

“The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd”

“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”

“The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.”

“A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.”

“By being seldom seen, I could not stirBut like a comet I was wondered at.”

“He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.”

“Your reputation is none of your business.”

“Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.”

“It's easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever.”

“Live in such a way that if someone should speak badly of you, no one would believe it.”

“Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.”

“When you do more than you're paid for eventually you will get paid for more than you do. This is a basic truth that also applies to Business, Sales or anything you do. Whatever your endeavor always provide more service than you get paid for and you will develop a reputation that will separate you from the rest.”

“When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.”

“Speak me fair in death.”

“From the circumstances of my position, I was often thrown into the society of horse-racers, card-players, fox-hunters, scientific and professional men, and of dignified men; and many a time have I asked myself, in the enthusiastic moment of the death of a fox, the victory of a favorite horse, the issue of a question eloquently argued at the bar, or in the great council of the nation, well, which of these kinds of reputation should I prefer? That of a horse-jockey, a fox-hunter, an orator, or the honest advocate of my country's rights?”

“The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.”

“No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.”

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”

“It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.”

“Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.”

“Done to death by slanderous tongue”

“The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.”

“The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.”