Reputation Quotes and Sayings

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

It take years to build trust and reputation and a seconds to destroy it.

Reputation is made in a moment. Character is built in a lifetime.

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously and have somebody find out.
– Oscar Wilde

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
– Abraham Lincoln

The life you live is who you are, not what people say about you.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.
– Publilius Syrus

A man’s reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
– Benjamin Franklin

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
– John Wooden

You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.
– Henry Ford

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
– Elbert Hubbard

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
– Benjamin Franklin

One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.
– Oscar Wilde

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
– William Shakespeare