Famous Reputation Quotes in English

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

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of – for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again.  The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; ‘tis something, nothing;
‘Twas mine, ‘tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed.

- William Shakespeare Quotes

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.  It is best however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.