Reputation
The estimation in which one is held; character in public opinion; the character attributed to a person, thing, or action; repute.
The character imputed to a person in the community in which he lives. It is admissible in evidence when he puts his character in issue, or when such reputation is otherwise part of the issue of a case.
Specifically: Good reputation; favorable regard; public esteem; general credit; good name.
Account; value.
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Reputation Quotations
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
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Warren Buffett
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
John F. Kennedy
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Warren Buffett
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
Reputation Translations
reputation in Danish is rygte
reputation in Dutch is reputatie, faam, roep, naam
reputation in German is Ansehen {n}
reputation in Swedish is anseende, rykte
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