somehow it is only when you don’t care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one.

it is only when you don’t care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one.

If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself.

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

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

Your good name and reputation make you who you are. Don’t give them away

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

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

"Managing and maintaining an almost scandal-free reputation has been the grace of God because we all are not created perfect and as such we just manage to be our self and be of the best behavior. I just feel being an actor opens you up to controversies, scandals, and all that. Maybe I’ve just been lucky.”

The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good. The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible. So far I have been able to accomplish that, and I believe I have gotten quite a reputation from not kicking at peculiar assignments.

You must develop one all-important ability — being able to enlist the help of other people. You have to reach a state where others want to help you. This includes giving credit...which will come back to you a hundredfold. Your reputation stems from what people say when you’re not present.

If you are doing well and you are still calm, people reckon more with you than when your head is not down, they won’t give a damn about you even if you are doing well.

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

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