It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad deed to lose it.
- Topic: Reputation
- Location: Hana, Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.
You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.
He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
No man will ever bring out the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.