Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself... Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And
outlive the bastards.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.... The friction tends to arise when the two are not the same....There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. <i>That's</i> soul destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

We all look with distaste on people who arrogantly pretend to a reputation to which they are not entitled; but equally to be condemned are those who, through lack of moral fibre, fail to live up to the reputation which is theirs already.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

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

Prestige! Sir, is it nothing? To be revered by fools, gaped at by children, envied by the rich and scorned by the wise.

Your reputation is what you're perceived to be,
Your character is what you really are

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.

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

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

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