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“If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.”
― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

“It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradiction, to be misjudged by men even though we do well and mean well. These things help us to be humble and shield us from vainglory. When to all outward appearances men give us no credit, when they do not think well of us, then we are more inclined to seek God Who sees our hearts. Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

“Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction!

Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.”
― Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

“Then, if to make your ruin more,
You'll peevishly be coy,
Die with the scandal of a whore
And never know the joy.”
― John Wilmot, The Complete Poems

“But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.”
― Orson Scott Card, Pathfinder

“Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.”
― William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part Two

“Je ne dois qu'à moi seul toute ma renommée."

(L'Excuse à Ariste)”
― Pierre Corneille, Chief Plays of Corneille

“Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.”
― William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare

“Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.”
― Jude Morgan, Passion: A Novel of the Romantic Poets

“Your boy here-" Ware jerked his head in angry indication "can't explain himself worth a damn."
That;s hardly news to me. Nonethelss," Gareth said, "I can't allow you to kill him. His death would be a terrible inconvenience for me."
Ware snorted. "If this is a same of his behavior, his death couldn't be so inconvenient as his life.”
― Courtney Milan, Proof by Seduction

“Ces six personnes formaient le fond de la voiture, le côté de la société rentée, sereine et forte, des honnêtes gens autorisés qui ont de la Religion et des Principes.”
― Guy de Maupassant, Boule de Suif

“It takes ten times longer to get rid of your reputation than it does to make it.”
― Jay Reatard

“But naturally Jackson's giving Danny the play-by-play because, hello, if you were Jackson and Gloria liked you, wouldn't you be renting a billboard about it?”
― Susane Colasanti, Take Me There

“Remember, people ebb and flow, but your reputation will follow you wherever you land.”
― Lauren Wesley Wilson, What Do You Need?: How Women of Color Can Take Ownership of Their Careers to Accelerate Their Path to Success

“If you want to attain great honor, be a person of small talk.”
― Luckson T Mabade

“There are lots of humans that do the things that you do. You are always in competition for resources, jobs, clients, and attention.”
― Brandon Birkmeyer, FRONT & CENTER LEADERSHIP: How Leaders Use Personal Branding to Stand Out and How You Can Too

“Personal branding without intention is just reputation. It’s when you add this intention, and you take action, that it starts to become a personal brand.”
― Brandon Birkmeyer, FRONT & CENTER LEADERSHIP: How Leaders Use Personal Branding to Stand Out and How You Can Too

“[...] This reputation carried down the centuries immediately following, with this twelfth-century poem a testament to how she was perceived a quarter of a millennium after her death:

Heroic Æthelflæd! Great in marital fame,
A man in valour, though a woman in your name:
Your warlike hosts by nature you obeyed,
Conquered over both, though born by sex a maid.”
― Janina Ramírez, Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it

“If you detest shame, run from fame. and if you detest scandal, watch your actions.”
― Bamigboye Olurotimi

“It is not wealth, reputation, fame, power, success or even religiosity that glorifies God. It is weakness & surrenderness.”
― indonesia123

“It's important in life not to be well-thought-of.
I mean to become so dependent of being well-thought-of you don't do the things and think the thoughts that make a person not well-thought-of. 196-7”
― Laurie Stone, Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening

“It takes time to build a reputation, but no time to destroy it.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose

“There are few of us who do not occasionally wish we had been born in other days, in days for which we have some secret affinity, and which shine for us with a mellow light in the deceitful pages of history . . . For myself, I confess that the last twenty-five years of the eighteenth century and the first twenty-five years of the nineteenth make up my chosen period, and that my motive for so choosing is contemptible. It was not a time distinguished �� in England, at least �� for wit or wisdom, for public virtues or for private charm; but it was a time when literary reputations were so cheaply gained that nobody needed to despair of one.”
― Agnes Repplier, A happy half-century, and other essays 1908 [Hardcover]

“سوچ تا ہوں اکثر کہ کیا پہچان ہے اِنسان کی؟

ماضی کی وہ دیوار جِس پر لِکھے ہوں سارے کرم؟

یا کِس خاندان کے ہو؟ کیا ذات؟ کیا دھرم؟

اوقات جتانے والے وہ جائداد کے حِصّے؟

یا قابِلیت بیاں کرتے وہ کامیابی کے قِصّے؟

اِن سب میں کہاں ہے وہ شخص؟

کہاں ہیں اُس کے جذبات؟

کیا کوئی پہچان نہیں دیتی اُسے

اُسکے پیار کی طاقت اور اُسکے آزاد خیالات؟”
― Adeel Ahmed Khan

“Your reputation is what other people think about you; your honor depends exclusively on you, not the opinions of others.”
― Bohdi Sanders, Musashi's Dokkodo: The Way of the Lone Warrior

“The Hamartia of Esteem by Stewart Stafford

A clash of Roses has seared these temples grey,
The brash cur pack supplanting divinity's place,
Nightshade words aimed at codpiece not the face,
Inquisition's gauntlet strikes this judgement day.

A death warrant marked by slander's inked stain?
Scarred by a caricatured actor's grasping fear?
In a groundless play for a groundling's sneer?
Mannequin tyrant in a jailer playwright's disdain?

Time shall be your confessor and guide,
A guest casting stones at yourself in haste,
Purifying my beloved's fair hand, debased,
Redeem her undoing at a vengeful rabble's side.

© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“A man is considered good not only by his actions but also by his thoughts.”
― Daniel Melgaço

“When a train approaches a station, the first thing that enters the station is not the train itself, but its distant view, the light shining from its window, the sound of the train, the air that the train pushes in front of it, etc., and then the train itself comes; when a person enters a place, the first thing that enters is not the person itself, but its glory that goes ahead of it and reaches everywhere before it!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“. . . people care a great deal more about appearance and reputation than about reality . . . the most important principle for designing an ethical society is to make sure that everyone's reputation is on the line all the time, so that bad behavior will always bring bad consequences.”
― Jonathan Haidt

“A man is confronted four times in life:

When he has little money.
When he has little knowledge.
When he has much money.
When he has much knowledge.”
― Marcese Maschietto