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

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
Liz Smith

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
Kate Bush

But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.
Marcus V. Pollio

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.
Ethel Merman

Concealed talent brings no reputation.
Desiderius Erasmus

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
Victor Kiam

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.
Cat Stevens

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
David Ogilvy

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
Robert Benchley

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.
Laurence Housman

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
Paul Theroux

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
Carroll O'Connor

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.
Greta Scacchi

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.
Richard Russo

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Robert Green Ingersoll

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch