Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes

If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

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.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Honor, without money, is a mere malady.

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

Without money honor is merely a disease.

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

This is a smear on the image that Thurmond has as a person of high integrity.

The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads — Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.

If there's one thing that I have in this business, it's respect.

It takes time for people to respect you.

Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.

It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.

But few prize honour more than money.

The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

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.

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

Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.