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Benjamin Franklin

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Topic: Reputation
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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A quarrelsome man has no good neighbors. — Benjamin Franklin

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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. — Benjamin Franklin

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When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? — Benjamin Franklin

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. — Benjamin Franklin

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More on Reputation

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. — John Wooden

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It is with literature as with law or empire—an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession. — Edgar Allan Poe

Believe a boaster as you would a liar. — Italian Proverb

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

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. — Blaise Pascal

Action Public Speaking Reputation Speech

Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation. — Jim Rohn

Honesty Reputation

People tend to believe what others say about you than you about yourself. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing. — Abraham Lincoln

Character Reputation

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. — Abraham Lincoln

Action Reputation

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. — Margaret Mead

Action Communication Reputation

No man will ever bring out the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

› Thomas Jefferson

Courage Reputation

Teachers die, but books live on. — Dutch Proverb

Leadership Reputation Society

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

Character Integrity Leadership Reputation

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. — J.K. Rowling

Action Goals Leadership Purpose Reputation

There’s neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. — William Shakespeare

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The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit—a reputation and character. — John D. Rockefeller

Character Reputation

I have never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man. — Thomas Jefferson

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

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The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

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Friendship Intelligence Leadership Reputation

He, of course, is a liar, but that doesn’t really matter because, if you know liars are liars, it comes to the same thing. — Agatha Christie

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You pass the test when you do what you say. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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It's the small choices we make over time that define who we are. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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

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You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. — Irish Proverb

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