REPUTATION QUOTES IV

quotations about reputation

Worry about your character and not your reputation, because your character is who you are, and your reputation is only what people think of you.

ANONYMOUS

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Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.

FISHER AMES

Works of Fisher Ames


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.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Notebooks

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But further, a man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and Observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Spectator, No. 256

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

WASHINGTON ALLSTON

Memoirs and Essays

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Convey a libel in a frown,
And wink a reputation down!

JONATHAN SWIFT

Journal of a Modern Lady

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Reputation is a great inheritance.

SENECA

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Reputation is in itself only a farthing-candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

"Keats", Literary Essays

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He who attacks another's reputation abandons his own.

AL-JAHM

attributed, Day's Collacon


A great reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.

TACITUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor, and give no attention or thought to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?

PLATO

Apology

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I see my reputation is at stake:
My fame is shewdly gor'd.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Troilus and Cressida

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It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus

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The reputation of a man is like a shadow; gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND-PÉRIGORD

attributed, Day's Collacon


Ought I not to have been more careful to win the good opinion of others, more determined to conquer their hostility or indifference? It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation--to force the esteem of others--seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.

HENRI-FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL

Journal Intime

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

HENRY FORD

attributed, International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations

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The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

SAMUEL R. DELANY

Dhalgren

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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue; we have seen a thousand people esteemed, either for the merit they had not attained, or for that they no longer possessed.

ST. EVREMOND

attributed, Day's Collacon


Reputation is like a feather, easily blown away.

JOSEPH NORMAN LOCKYER

attributed, Day's Collacon


A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.

JOHN GAY

Fables

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