Reputation Loss Quotes

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

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

We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation.

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.

My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.

It never occurred to me that I was important enough to have some politician go out of his way to silence me. I only found out about it in the '80s by accident - a broadcaster announced they received letters of commendation from the White House for having suppressed my music. My career was so highly impacted in the U.S. it will never recover.

A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character. The former is a local malady; the latter, constitutional taint. When the reputation of the offender is lost, he too often flings the remainder of his virtue after it in despair.

Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.

Privacy is dead. Reputations are dying.

I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.

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.

Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!

Like confidence, legitimacy can vanish in a hurry and once lost, is very difficult to regain.

It takes ten times longer to get rid of your reputation than it does to make it.

Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

That should be regarded as a loss, which is won at the expense of our reputation.

Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.

Be still: There is no longer any need of comment. It was a lucky wind That blew away his halo with his cares, A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.

He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.