Aristotle Onassis Quotes

Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

Honor, without money, is a mere malady.

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

All you have in life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name, then you'll never be happy. The thought will always lurk at the back of your mind that people don't trust you.

It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!.

I have paid for things that I had done because I have been in the spotlight.

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

One's sense of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out with age, is not, as the poet said, making money, but having the respect of one's fellow men.

Popularity means people think they know you.

I value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.

Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.