Proverbs 22:1
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
Eccles. 7:1
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
"I better brook the loss of brittle life
Than those proud titles thou hast won of me;"
Shakespeare, Henry IV Part I: Act 5