Dies Quote by Alexander Pope

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

— Alexander Pope

Reputation is made in a moment. Character is built in a lifetime.

— Anonymous

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

— Will Rogers

Reputation, you know – a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy.

— Robert De Niro

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.

— Mason Cooley

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

— Peter Benchley

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks…

— James Russell Lowell

A reputation takes years to build, but only a moment to destroy.

— Anonymous

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.

— John Bartholomew Gough

Repetition makes reputation.

— Elizabeth Arden

A reputation is really hard to live down.

— Mickey Rourke

A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.

— Stephen King