30 Quotes On Building Reputation

In today's fast-paced world, reputation is more important than ever. Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur, a budding professional, or simply finding your path, the foundation of your success often rests on a solid reputation. Cultivating and maintaining a positive perception takes time, effort, and persistence. To inspire and guide you on this crucial journey, we've curated a collection of the top 30 quotes on building reputation. These timeless insights from thought leaders, business magnates, and influential personalities will provide you with the wisdom and encouragement needed to strengthen your personal and professional standing. Dive in and explore how these powerful words can inspire resilience, integrity, and authenticity in your pursuit of a stellar reputation.

1. “It is better to be alone than in bad company.” - George Washington

2. “With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.” - Margaret Mitchell

3. “Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.” - Wayne W. Dyer

4. “Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.” - Liz Smith

5. “A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” - Henry Ford

6. “Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?” - Simone Elkeles

7. “You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!” - Mikhail Bulgakov

8. “The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones.” - William Shakespeare

9. “Remember no one expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet tall and kills bears with his bare hands...” - John Flanagan

10. “Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.” - Lois McMaster Bujold

11. “Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.” - William Gurnall

12. “What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion.” - Oscar Wilde

13. “The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.” - Washington Irving

14. “Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism (as the time of Augustus Cæsar) were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.” - Francis Bacon

15. “If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.” - John Steinbeck

16. “Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are.” - John Wooden

17. “Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.” - Jude Morgan

18. “You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.” - Jefferson Smith

19. “Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,The which in every language I pronounce,Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.” - William Shakespeare

20. “I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.” - Thomas Hughes

21. “Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.” - David Mitchell

22. “All those people who are chained here thinking that their reputations matter and this little shit matters are so freaking shortsighted. Dude, what matters is that you're happy. What matters is your future. What matters is that we get out of here in one piece. What matters is finding the truth of our own lives, not caring about what other people think is the truth of us.” - A.S. King

23. “What's in a name?  The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

24. “Your family should be there. Your family should always be there. What does it say about you if they aren't?” - Chris Lynch

25. “It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.” - Steven J. Carroll

26. “If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it.” - Jennifer Lee Carrell

27. “Reputation is what others think of us; character is what we know of us. When you spend a lot of energy trying to repair a few moments of time that destroyed the view others once had of you, or a judgment someone made of you, true or not, then you must ask yourself, why take on the problem when it is really them?” - Tambré Bryant - Strategic Intervention Life Coach

28. “Bertie’s gaze fell there and his blue eyes widened. “Deuce take you, Jess,” he said crossly. “Can’t a fellow trust you for a moment? How many times do I have to tell you to leave my friends alone?”Miss Trent coolly withdrew her hand.Trent gave Dain an apologetic look. “Don’t pay it any mind, Dain. She does that to all the chaps. I don’t know why she does it, when she don’t want ‘em. Just like them fool cats of Aunt Louisa’s. Go to all the bother of catching a mouse, and then the confounded things won’t eat ’em. Just leave the corpses lying about for someone else to pick up.”Miss Trent’s lips quivered.” - Loretta Chase

29. “Better to die, than to live on with a bad reputation.” - Vietnamese proverb.

30. “If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.” - Shannon L. Alder