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A good name is better than precious ointment. -- Ecclesiastes 7:1

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For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.

Charles Lamb

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

Benjamin Franklin

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How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!

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I am better than my reputation.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

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I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

Dwight L. Moody

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It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

Josh Billings

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It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.

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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

Pliny the Elder

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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

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My reputation grew with every failure.

George Bernard Shaw

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No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

Helen Rowland

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Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

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

Oscar Wilde

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Reputations will continue to be made by many acts and be lost by one.

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Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!

William Shakespeare

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The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

Francis Quarles

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The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples -- do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings -- don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.

Jim Rohn

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The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

Samuel Johnson

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The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

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The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.

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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Socrates

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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

Dag Hammarskjöld

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To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.

Cicero

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We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Mignon McLaughlin

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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

E. W. Howe

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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford

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Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

William Wycherley

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A good name is better than precious ointment. -- Ecclesiastes 7:1

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.

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

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!

I am better than my reputation.

I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

My reputation grew with every failure.

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

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

Reputations will continue to be made by many acts and be lost by one.

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.