Ricky Gervais Quotes

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

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

Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.

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

In the end, all you have is your reputation.

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

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

Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.

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

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

We are tired of having our integrity impugned. We are tired of having our sincerity questioned. We are tired of having our intelligence insulted.

Honor bespeaks worth Confidence begets trust.

A good reputation is better than fame.

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you.

One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good.

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

I don't earn my money from trying to hurt people or get in the tabloids.

I did not have a reputation to defend.

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.

Ability without honor is useless.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.