(810 quotes found)
“A bad wound may be cured, bad repute kills”
Spanish Proverb
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.”
Sam Houston
“Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.”
St. Francis de Sales
“Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.”
Brian Koslow
“Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.”
James Russell Lowell
“A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.”
Baltasar Gracian
“The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.”
William Shakespeare
“First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them go get on with it.”
David Ogilvy
“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy i”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern h”
Niccolo Machiavelli
