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| Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. | | Elbert Hubbard | |
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| Ninety percent of all politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. | | Henry Kissinger | |
| Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. | | Henry Kissinger | |
| No man will ever bring out of the presidency the reputation which carries him into it | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. | | William Shakespeare | |
| Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. | | Thomas Paine | |
| Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial | | William Shakespeare | |
| 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 | |
| The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit - a reputation and character. | | John D. Rockefeller | |
| The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay. | | William Shakespeare | |
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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 | |
| The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. | | Socrates | |
| The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation | | Samuel Butler | |
| Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth | | William Shakespeare | |
| There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized | | Oscar Wilde | |
| You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. | | Henry Ford | |
| You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do. | | Liz Smith | |
