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

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  3.8 · 40 votes · 106 reads

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• Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 33 votes · 175 reads

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

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.2 · 51 votes · 36 reads

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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

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.1 · 52 votes · 50 reads

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

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 59 votes · 35 reads

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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

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.4 · 5 votes · 71 reads

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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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  Anonymous

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

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 63 votes · 119 reads

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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

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.2 · 24 votes · 84 reads

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

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  3.5 · 61 votes · 106 reads

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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

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.2 · 15 votes · 153 reads

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

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.1 · 38 votes · 154 reads

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

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  4.9 · 61 votes · 114 reads

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