Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

— Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

— Anonymous

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

— Abraham Lincoln

Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

— Abraham Lincoln

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

— Learned Hand

You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Could you imagine if the U.N. had endorsed the war in Iraq, what our reputation would be like?

— Kofi Annan

Don't consider your reputation and you may do anything you like

— Chinese Proverbs

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

A strong reputation is like a good bonfire. When you have one kindled it's easy to keep the flame burning, even if someone comes…

— Anonymous

To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet,…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Whether people see you as a shadow or as an invisible or stupid sort of thing, a time will come when that Image of…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'

— Emmy Rossum

I have played several characters that are crabby and cranky. I don't know if I'm just not a very well-developed human being or if…

— Judy Greer

Character is like a pregnancy, you cannot hide it no matter what you do.

— Kontihene