Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
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.
You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.
I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
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.