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Reputation is how much admiration or respect something receives

• Reputation: The beliefs or opinions that are generally held about someone or something. Oxford Dictionary
• Reputation: The opinion that people in general have about someone or something, or Reputation:   How much respect or admiration someone or something receives, based on past behaviour or character. Cambridge Dictionary
• Reputation: he estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally.  Dictionary.com
• Reputation: Quality or character as seen or judged by people in general.  Merriam Webster
• Character,  Fame,  Honor,  Influence,  Respect,  Trust

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Reputation is the thoughts we believe other men have about us

• Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin? George Eliot

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Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves

• Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. Nathaniel Branden
• The reputation you have with yourself – your self-esteem – is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life. Nathaniel Branden
• Self-esteem

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Let go of caring too much about your reputation …

• A humble man can do great things with an uncommon perfection because he is no longer concerned about accidentals, like his own interests and his own reputation, and therefore, he is no longer needing to waste his efforts in defending them. Thomas Merton
• With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. Margaret Mitchell
• The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation. Washington Irving
• Don’t consider your reputation and you may do anything you like. Chinese Proverbs
• Approval seeking

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… for maintaining reputation is a burden

• He who worries about reputation, has a reputation to worry about. Edwin Leibfreed
• Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. Margaret Mitchell
• However much of time, labor, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as much to maintain it. One who has written a good book, is expected on all occasions to “talk like a book.” Or, if one has achieved an act of heroism, he is expected to perform acts of heroism for the edification of all who approach him. There are people who can never believe they see a lion unless they hear him roar. Christian Nestell Bovee

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Be more concerned with your character and integrity than your reputation

• Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. Dale Carnegie
• Character,  Integrity

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Character is who you really are, reputation is who people think you are

• Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln
• Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for. Robert Quillen
• Reputation is character minus what you’ve been caught doing. Michael Lapoce
• Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. Thomas Paine
• Reputation is an interpretation, more or less accurate, of character. Austin O’Malley

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Reputations are often nothing but an illusory shadow

• Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. Elbert Hubbard
• Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. William Shakespeare
• The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it! Samuel R. Delany
• The reputation of a man is like his shadow: it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size. French Proverb
• Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. St. Francis de Sales
• The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows. Charles M. de Talleyrand
• Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln

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Take care of your character, and your reputation will take care of itself

• If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself. Dwight Lyman Moody
• Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what the reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character. Wayne Dyer

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Reputation is easier to keep than to recover

• Character is much easier kept than recovered. Thomas Paine
• Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of — for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. Socrates
• A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. Joseph Hall

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A reputation can take years to build and be destroyed overnight

• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. Warren Buffett
• It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. Benjamin Franklin
• A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. Baltasar Gracian
• A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. Lord Jeffery

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Thoughts on losing your reputation

• The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation. Samuel Butler
• At every word a reputation dies. Alexander Pope
• It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
• Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife. John N. Mitchell
• Once you lose your reputation, you don’t mind it. Belva Porter
• Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. Margaret Mitchell
• Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. William Shakespeare

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A good reputation has its value

• A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold. Proverbs 22:1
• A good reputation is more valuable than money. Publilius Syrus
• The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit – a reputation and character. John D. Rockefeller
• Reputation, my dear, reputation. Lose it, and you have lost the immortal part of yourself. What remains is no more than bestial. Jennifer Lee Carrell
• There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast. Brian Koslow

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Ways to establish a reputation

• Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom. Myrtle Reed
• The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. Socrates
• A person is what he says and does; that’s how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured. Orson Scott Card
• Work is the price which is paid for reputation. Baltasar Gracian
• There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. Charles Caleb Colton
• Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. George Washington
• Reputations are made by searching for things that can’t be done and doing them. Frank Tyger
• Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs. Anthony J. D’Angelo
• Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation. Lawana Blackwell
• Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. Liz Smith

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

• Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. Liz Smith
• You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. Henry Ford
• Intention

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Reputation can’t be attained by talking yourself up

• Reputation is a bubble which man bursts when he tries to blow it for himself.
• It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking; if your own tongue must praise you. Matthew Hale

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A bad reputation can be very difficult to get rid of

• When a man has once gained a Reputation not even with God’s help can he get rid of it. Abraham Miller

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Don’t let the fear of losing your reputation stop you from taking risks and trying new things

• My reputation grows with every failure. George Bernard Shaw
• Makin’ mistakes ain’t a crime, you know. What’s the use of having a reputation if you can’t ruin it every now and then? Simone Elkeles

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• A doctor’s reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.  George Bernard Shaw
• An alibi is a reason with a bad reputation.  Doug Larson
• Apart from health, family, friends, possessions, memories, rights and reputation, what do you have to lose. Ashleigh Brilliant
• Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.  Paul Theroux
• Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep ’til noon. Mark Twain
• Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. Lois McMaster Bujold
• He got a reputation as a great actor by just thinking hard about the next line.  King Vidor
• I wrote the story myself. It’s about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. Mae West
• It ain’t often that a man’s reputation outlasts his money. Josh Billings
• Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.   Laurence J. Peter
• Makin’ mistakes ain’t a crime, you know. What’s the use of having a reputation if you can’t ruin it every now and then? Simone Elkeles
• Many a man gets a big reputation for Virtue and Morality, when if the truth were known, the poor boob was simply scared of getting caught. Robert Elliott Gonzales
• Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. Elbert Hubbard
• Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. Henry Kissinger
• One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation. Oscar Wilde
• Reputation is character minus what you’ve been caught doing. Michael Lapoce
• The fellow who laughs last may laugh best but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.  Leo Rosten
• To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly and steal privately.  Josh Billings
• To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you. Oscar Wilde
• Too bad ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. Henry Kissinger
• We would all like a reputation for generosity and we’d all like to buy it cheap.  Mignon McLaughlin
• You would never be able to live down to your reputation, but I see you’re doing your best.

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