It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Character is what you really are. Reputation is what people say you are.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

Worry more about your conscience than your reputation. Because your conscience is what you are, your reputation is what others think of you. And what others think of you is their problem.

Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

Your reputation is the most important thing you’ll never have. Not clothes, nor money, not the big cars you may drive. If your reputation is good, you can achieve anything you want in the world.

Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.

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.

You’ll stop worrying what others think about you when you realize how seldom they do.

You’ll stop worrying what others think about you when you realize how seldom they do.

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.