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You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

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

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

I've been enormously fortunate. People say, 'How do you feel about your reputation?' My real belief is that I have exactly the reputation I deserve... on the whole, I feel comfortable with myself.

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.

Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.

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.