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It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

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.

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

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

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

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

I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.