70+ Powerful Reputation Quotes To Inspire You

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character. – Wayne Dyer

Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

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

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

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

You can’t buy a good reputation; you must earn 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.

Your personal brand is a promise to your clients… a promise of quality, consistency, competency, and reliability.

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

It is difficult to make a reputation but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made – so faithful is the public.

A good reputation is like a good shadow; it always follows you.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of.

You can’t build a reputation for what you are going to do.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep its eyes on the spot where the crack was.

Your reputation is the biggest asset you have.

Your reputation is your personal brand, and it will either open doors or close them.

A man’s reputation is what he is in the eyes of others. His character is what he is in his own eyes.

Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it’s very hard to repair. – Abraham Lincoln

A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.

Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies, as what they do.

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

Work is the price that is paid for reputation.

Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are.

Character is much easier to keep than recovered.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, a great reputation, and great joy.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

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

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

I rather like my reputation, actually, that of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a womanizer; it’s rather an attractive image.

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.

A man’s character is the reliability of himself. His reputation is the opinion others have formed of him. Character is in him; reputation is from other people.

Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation for what you intend to do.

A reputation is what you hear when no one is there to speak for it.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit… a reputation, and character.

A reputation for good judgment, fair dealing, truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

A fair reputation is a plant delicate in its nature, and by no means rapid in its growth. It will not shoot up in a night, like the gourd of the prophet, but like that gourd, it may perish in a night.

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

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

It’s a fine thing to have a finger pointed at one, and to hear people say, “That’s the man.”

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

Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.

Reputations are longer in the making than the losing.

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we’d all like to buy it cheaply.

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed – for credit is like fire.

I wrote the story myself. It’s about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

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

Reputation is character minus what you’ve been caught doing.

A man can get a reputation from very small things.

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

When you’re not around, your reputation will speak for you.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

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

I have to be responsible with my character, my image, and my reputation.

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

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

Don’t entertain others at the expense of your reputation.

A doctor’s reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

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

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

Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation, and your enjoyment of being a lawyer.

Reputation is everything when it comes to building a digital brand.

Kind words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

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.

I’m really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

It is the duty of everyone to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

There is no reputation so clear, but a slanderer may stain it.

He who worries about reputation has a reputation to worry about.

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

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

A man’s reputation has been very aptly compared to a sheet of white paper; if it is once blotted, it can hardly ever be made to look as white as before.

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

Location is the key to most businesses, and entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.

How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations?

Reputations can be manipulated; the character can only be developed and maintained.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire for ourselves.

I don’t mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have.

Reputation is an interpretation, more or less accurate, of character.

When a man has once gained a Reputation not even with God’s help can he get rid of it?