You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
- Henry Ford


Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
- Ben Franklin


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


Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
- Mahatma Gandhi


The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mahatma Gandhi


There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
- Mahatma Gandhi


They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.
- Michael Jackson


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


Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson


Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return.
- John McCain


I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.
- Marilyn Monroe


If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
- Marilyn Monroe


A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.
- Marilyn Monroe


Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.
- Marilyn Monroe


Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates


Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
- George Washington