Deserving Quote by William Shakespeare

“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving. You have lost no reputation at all unless…

— William Shakespeare

Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.

— Laetitia Pilkington

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

— Stephen King

A good reputation is a very easy thing to lose and a very hard thing to get.

— Vikrant Parsai

Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away.

— William Davis

Reputations are made by searching for things that can't be done and doing them

— Frank Tyger

Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

— Washington Allston

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.

— John Bartholomew Gough

Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.

— Publilius Syrus

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

— George William Curtis