Worry about your character, not your reputation. Because, your character is who you are, and your reputation is what people think you are.

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.

Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy

Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit

Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table.

Don’t wreck my reputation / Let me wreck my own.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore they no longer need to waste their efforts in defending them

Perhaps the most valuable of all human possessions, next to an aloof and sniffish air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

I’ve lost a lot. I’ve lost money, and my reputation has taken a hit for taking the high road to protect my dignity, to protect children, and for other good causes. But I don’t think there’s ever too steep a price for doing the right thing.

I’ve been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I’m being is truthful and honest. And I think that’s been a thorn in my side. I auditioned for a lot of work and got some good feedback, and then was told I wasn’t the choice.

Ye’ve a furtive look in your eye – a furtive, sneakin’, poachin’ look in your eye, that ‘ud ruin the reputation of an archangel!

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Getting kicked out of Cube has tarnished my reputation and disgraced myself.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

My reputation precedes me now.

My reputation grows with every failure.

A doctor’s reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad Company.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Never question the size of Ice Cube’s balls.

I wrote the story myself. It’s about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker then that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.

Work until you don’t have to introduce yourself.

Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions sense from thought divide

The most effective means of gaining fame is to make the world believe that you are already famous.