A Quote by William Shakespeare

The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.

William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare
English - Playwright
April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616

My dear, dear Lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loan or painted clay... Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.

William Shakespeare

You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love.

Rick Yancey

When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.

Daniel Webster

We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation.

Warren Buffett

The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

Plato

Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is manufactured; character is grown. Reputation is your photograph; There is a vast difference between character and reputation. Reputation is what men think we are; character is what God knows us to be. Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is the breath of men; character is the inbreathing of the eternal God. One may for a time have a good reputation and a bad character, or the reverse ; but not for long.

Robert Stuart MacArthur

Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can counterfail a friend?

Nicholas Grimald

We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.

Charles Churchill

Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it.

R. C. Sproul

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

Jim Hodges

The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.

John of the Cross

Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.

David Brenner

The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.