It is better to lose friends than to lose your reputation, and better to lose riches than to lose your integrity.
– Matshona Dhliwayo
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- If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay. – Liezi
- Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what the reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character. – Wayne W Dyer
- Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are. – John Wooden
- It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made — so faithful is the public. – Arnold Bennett
- A good reputation is better than great riches. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. – Billy Graham
- Wealth and riches are not evil, it is having love for wealth and riches that is evil – Sunday Adelaja
- virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue. – Plato
- You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime. – Ziad K Abdelnour
- It is not the amount of friends that is important, but the amount of integrity, sincerity, and love in your friends – Charles F Glassman
- Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive-“ my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity. – Jonathan Franzen
- A man’s most valuable possession is his integrity. Unless he has no integrity. In which case, he may not have much of anything of value. – T Jay Taylor
- A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- In a crowd do not lose your individuality, and in your individuality do not lose the crowd. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- True riches belong to those who shun false ones. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- He who despises a poor man’s wisdom has turned away great riches. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Loss of worldly riches is better than loss of heavenly treasures. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If you have to choose between character and reputation. Choose character every single time. Then you can be authentic and straight. Nothing to lose. – Parashar Pandya
- In failure, you begin to lose friends. In success, you lose most of them. – Arvind Parashar
- Riches draw friends as corpses draw vultures – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- It’s one thing when you lose a friend or when your friends become enemies, but it’s the worst when friends become strangers, – Hayley Williams
- Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends. – Chuck Palahniuk
- You never lose friends. You just discover who your real friends are. – Ain Eineziz
- Your best friends should bring out the best in you. If they don’t, lose them; they are no friends. – Ziad K Abdelnour
- My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. – George RR Martin
- A messy house is a must – it separates your true friends from other friends.Real friends are there to visit you not your house! – Jennifer Wilson
- Money and power attract friends. But it’s not you they’re friends with -” just your money and power. Only affection brings genuine friends. – AuliqIce
- Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week-¦Then you could see what it is, friends! -¦ – Art Spiegelman
- Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Match your talent with integrity, or your talent might take you places where you lose control, and fall from grace. – Kevin J Donaldson
- If roses did not suffer thorns on their journey to beauty, they would lose out on becoming masterpieces. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A bird only conquers the sky when it has mastered enough courage to lose sight of the ground. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A rose does not lose sleep because it was mocked by weeds. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A wise bird would rather lose a worm than a feather. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Honey does not lose its sweetness because it is made by bees that sting. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Fight honorably,win honorably,and lose honorably.To fail honorably is betterthan to succeed dishonorably. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Success is the sweetest thing to taste,the bitterest thing to lose,and the hardest thing to earn. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If seeds saw dirt as their enemy, they would lose out on the opportunity to grow. – Matshona Dhliwayo