Quotes about Reputation
Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
— George Washington
By evil report and good report.
— Anonymous
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
— Thomas Jefferson
A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.
— Thomas Paine
A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Young man, make your name worth something.
— Andrew Carnegie
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
— Cicero
The honor of a nation is its life.
— Alexander Hamilton
It was said of him that he had once been for a short time in Bedlam; they had done him the honour to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet. This story was probably not true; we have all to submit to some such legend about us.
— Victor Hugo
Ignominy thirsts for respect.
— Victor Hugo
When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly.
— Confucius