Quotes about Reputation

One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

If you believe in others and give them a positive reputation to uphold, you can help them to become better than they think they are.

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

I overhear the Manyuema telling each other that I am the "good one." I have no slaves, and I owe this character to the propagation of a good name by the slaves of Zanzibar, who are anything but good themselves.

You cannot build God's reputation if you aren't willing to risk yours.

A good character is the best tombstone.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.