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Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze.
[Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae,
Intaminatis fulget honoribus;
Nec sumit aut ponit secures
Arbitrio popularis aurae.]
Reputation is what men say about you on your tombstone;
Character is what the angels say about you before the throne of God
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.
Reputation is not a treatise you write on your own behavior. Other people write it, and other people keep it.
Reputation is generally proof of how little one knows about a person.
The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!
Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.
In the end, all you have is your reputation.
Many consult their reputation; but few their conscience.
He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.
Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset.
Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.
Reputation is for those who can afford it.
One's reputation must not exceed one's capabilities;
by your works you shall be known.
We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.
Your reputation is none of your business.
Honor is a trophy for the wise;
dishonor is a crown for fools.
A good reputation in the sight of men is precious;
a good name in the sight of God is priceless.
A good reputation may be worth millions,
but a good character is worth all the riches of the world.
Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.
Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.
If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable.
It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.
Repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.
There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation!
It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made
so faithful is the public.
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.
Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.
Your reputation is what you're perceived to be,
Your character is what you really are
[I]n politics, reputation is the prologue to fact...
It is just as valuable to be censured by friends as it is splendid to be praised by enemies. We desire praise from those who do not know us, but from friends we want the truth.
It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.
Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.
Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.
Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.
Your reputation is what others think of you; your character is what you truly are. Reputations can be manipulated; character can only be developed and maintained.
Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.
Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.
Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.
I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing
Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.
A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.
Only Truth can give true reputation: only reality can be of real profit.
The reputation of power IS power.
The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
Tomorrow your reputation has to be made again.
Reputation is made in a moment; Character is built over a lifetime.
A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
Guilt was imputed and corruption was conveyed
The reputation is not essentially built by earning too much, learning too many things, achieving awards, bagging rewards or catapulting position to the hilt; but by unquestionably staying simple, humble , well grounded and doing nothing that makes own conscience to feel guilt.
And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.
Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
TRUST RESULTS FROM MERIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY
You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away.
The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability
To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here
reproachful - I've
It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.
Reputation never has very much to do with reality.
I am better than my reputation.
A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.
Repose not trust in testing another's degree of honesty at the risk of one's loss in matters big, unless collateralized.
Your reputation is the most important thing you'll never have. Not clothes, nor money, not the big cars you may drive. If your reputation is good, you can achieve anything you want in the world.
I had made my reputation on integrity.
Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.
Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation.
A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is.
I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.
Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.
Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.
Reputation is what others think you are; character is what God knows you are.
I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.
Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.
I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others ...
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
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.
Your reputation is like a shadow, following you wherever you go.
Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
To admonish is better than to reproach for admonition is mild and friendly, but reproach is harsh and insulting; and admonition corrects those who are doing wrong, but reproach only convicts them.
You earn your reputation by the things you do every day.
The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.
To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.
What is left when honor is lost?
The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.
Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.
Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm.
Be more interested in character than reputation
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.
If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.