Reputation

(147 votes)   Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(130 votes)   The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
1754-1838, French Statesman

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(119 votes)   Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
1754-1838, French Statesman

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(118 votes)   The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon
1786-1846, British Artist

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(115 votes)   To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(107 votes)   I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

Princess of Wales Diana
1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales

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(104 votes)   What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

Edgar Watson Howe
1853-1937, American Journalist, Author

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(102 votes)   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
1709-1784, British Author

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(96 votes)   For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.

Charles Lamb
1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic

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(95 votes)   Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(95 votes)   My reputation is a media creation.

John Lydon Rotten
1957-, British Rock Musician

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(91 votes)   His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.

John B. Gough
1817-1886, British-born American Temperance Orator

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(90 votes)   A good name is better than precious ointment. [Ecclesiastes 7:1]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(88 votes)   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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(81 votes)   My reputation grew with every failure.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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