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  • Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

    George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775”, p.413
  • Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

    Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.467
  • The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

  • Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as strength, good health, beauty, and sound senses; and external goods, such as wealth, friends, good birth, good children, good heredity, good reputation and the like.

  • Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.

  • True honour is an attachment to honest and beneficent principles, and a good reputation; and prompts a man to do good to others, and indeed to all men, at his own cost, pains, or peril. False honour is a pretence to this character, but does things that destroy it: And the abuse of honour is called honour, by those who from that good word borrow credit to act basely, rashly, or foolishly.

    Pain   Character   Men  
    "Cato's Letter" No. 57, Of false Honour, publick and private, December 16, 1721.
  • Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of.

    Jewels   Names   Advice  
  • We've learned from experience that the truth will out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature's phenomena will agree or they'll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven't tried to be very careful in this kind of work. And it's this type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is missing to a large extent in much of the research in Cargo Cult Science.

    "Cargo Cult Science". Richard P. Feynman's Caltech commencement address (1974), as quoted in "'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!': Adventures of a Curious Character" edited by Ralph Leighton (p. 342), calteches.library.caltech.edu. 1985.
  • Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!

    1603-4 Cassio to Iago. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.256-8.
  • He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.

    Names   Reputation   Poor  
    'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 155
  • A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.

  • You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.

    "Giuliana Rancic Interview". www.seventeen.com. November 17, 2008.
  • One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

    Life   Death   Reality  
  • Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 46. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.
  • Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.

    Excellence   Doe   Matter  
    John Piper (2009). “Life as a Vapor: Thirty-One Meditations for Your Faith”, p.15, Multnomah
  • If you say that a good reputation serves to benefit the neighbor more, I admit that. However, since it should be based on a good life, it is, therefore, preserved by the practice of virtue and not by human intrigue.

    Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”
  • Because of the caste system, because of the fact that there is no social link between those who make the decisions and those who suffer the decisions, the Indian government just goes ahead and does what it wants. The people also assume that this is their lot, their karma, what was written. It's quite an efficient way of doing things. Therefore, India has a very good reputation in the world as a democracy, as a government that cares, that has just got too much on its hands, whereas, in fact, it's actually creating the problems.

    Source: progressive.org
  • A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets.

  • Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like to play with you.

    Artist   Play   Musician  
  • I feel like thanking Paul Dacre every time, because the reason they ask me is because they think I've come through the other end with a pretty good reputation. Loads of people get a bad press but have a good reputation. [David] Beckham - think what he went through. [Bill] Clinton, likewise. You just have to be true to yourself.

    Thinking   People   Bills  
    "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.
  • The Constitution gives you the right to a lawyer, but it doesn't allow you the right to a good reputation.

    "How to Survive a Scandal". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 10, 2014.
  • I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.

    Play   Long   Safe  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • A good name is better than precious ointment.

  • 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, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional
  • No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

    Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”
  • 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.

    Two   Literature   May  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.235
  • It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.

    Honesty   Lying   Law  
    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 20, 2012
  • Character is much easier kept than recovered.

    Life   Integrity   War  
    Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.190
  • 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 (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr
  • What is a good man? Simply one whose life is useful to the world. And a bad man is simply one whose life is harmful to others. There are, however, those who are harmful and yet enjoy a good reputation, and who manage to profit by a show of usefulness. These are the worst of all.

    Men   Good Man   World  
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