Reputation Quotes

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

  Dwight L. Moody

  Leadership, Character, Care

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• Reputation, you know – a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy.

  Robert De Niro

  Lifetime, Knows, Seconds

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• Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Jesus, Names

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne on Common Prayer". www.readthespirit.com. 2012.

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• It is better to be alone than in bad company.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Friendship, Lonely

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• Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputetion is who people think you re.

  John Wooden

  Character, Thinking, People

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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

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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  Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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

  Jim Rohn

  Responsibility, Sacrifice, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 06, 2015

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• It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

  Will Rogers

  Lifetime, Minutes, Loses

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• Character is much easier kept than recovered.

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Integrity, War

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.190

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Character, Deeds Done

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• The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Tired, Sunday, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Sometimes you can have a reputation for not being relatable and nice because you had a bad day once.

  James Corden

  Nice, Bad Day, Sometimes

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Jesus still has a really great reputation and the Spirit is still moving. I've got a lot of hope for a generation that takes Jesus seriously, once again.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Moving, Generations

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne on Common Prayer". www.readthespirit.com. 2012.

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• Judge [Samuel] Alito has a reputation for being an exceptional and honest judge devoted to the rule of law, as well as being a man of integrity.

  Chuck Grassley

  Integrity, Men, Law

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations". Book by William S. Walsh, 1951.

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

  Epictetus

  Positive, Encouraging, Uplifting

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• As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

  Joseph Conrad

  Achievement, Built

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels [Nostromo, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, etc.] (Book House)”, p.1301, Book House

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• Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Success, Honesty

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Death, Reality

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• Reputation is only a 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

  Happiness, Success, Character

  JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1871). “THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS.”, p.14

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Money, Character, Wealth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.396

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• Faithfully guard your reputation.

  Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

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• How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

  Petrarch

  Ignorance, Character, Rocks

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• Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Motivation, Character

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