Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. George Washington

• reputation
• friends
• associates

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. Judith Martin

• reputation
• bragging

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

• reputation
• actions
• initiative

You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity. If you can be absolutely relied upon; if when you say a thing is so, it is so; if when you say you will do a thing, you do it; then you carry with you a passport to universal esteem. Grenville Kleiser

• integrity
• reputation
• dependability

Accuracy builds credibility. Jim Rohn

• reputation

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. Lord Jeffery

• reputation

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. John Wooden

• character
• reputation

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. Anonymous

• reputation

Volume adds nothing to credibility. Abraham Lincoln

• speech
• reputation

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. Plato

• reputation

And I honor the man who is willing to sink

Half his present repute for the freedom to think,

And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,

Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak. James Russell Lowell

• reputation
• freedom
• free speech
• risk

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy. Karl Börne

• reputation

Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets - and can be lost in a heartbeat. Charlie Munger

• integrity
• reputation