Margaret Mitchell Quotes

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

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

I did not have a reputation to defend.

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

Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation?

I wasn't aware I was trading on my good name; I've never had a good name.

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

I don't care what you say about me. Just spell the name right.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

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.

I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.

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

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

He whose honor is rooted in popular approval must, day by day, anxiously strive, act, and scheme in order to retain his reputation.

There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.

Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.