Quotes About Reputation

Who has once the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

— James Howell

Character is made by what you stand for; reputation, by what you fall for.

— Robert Quillen

It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.

— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzcshe

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

— Cyril Connolly

Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.

— Lord Chesterfield

Every man values himself more than all other men, but he always values others’ opinion of him more than his own.

— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

— Oscar Wilde

Each man is afraid of his neighbor’s disapproval — a thing which, to the general run of the race, is more dreaded than wounds and death.

— Mark Twain

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.

— Proverbs 22:1

Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

— Margaret Mitchell

Oh! I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.

— William Shakespeare

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad quality.

— George Washington

There’s only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

— Oscar Wilde

Reputation: what others are not thinking about you.

— Tom Masson

There are times when there is nothing more humiliating in life than the knowledge of being inferior to one’s reputation.

— Eleonora Duse

No nation respects a beggar.

— Elijah Muhammad

I can ruin my reputation in five minutes; I don’t need help.

— Martha Graham