The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. A jewel in a ten-times-barr?d-up chest Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast. Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me and my life is done.
It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. Get a reputation and then go to bed is the absurdest of all maxims. Keep up a reputation or go to bed would be nearer the truth.
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one and the weakest weapon of the other. A wise man therefore will be more anxious to deserve a fair name than to possess it and this will teach him so to live as not to be afraid to die.
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself personally it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
One can survive everything nowadays except death and live down everything except a good reputation.
Until you lose your reputation you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. A jewel in a ten-times-barr?d-up chest Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast. Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me and my life is done.
It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. Get a reputation and then go to bed is the absurdest of all maxims. Keep up a reputation or go to bed would be nearer the truth.
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one and the weakest weapon of the other. A wise man therefore will be more anxious to deserve a fair name than to possess it and this will teach him so to live as not to be afraid to die.
You cant build a reputation on what you are going to do.
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself personally it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Your name is mud.