Character Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

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

— Abraham Lincoln

Our reputation is shadow of our character, and the shadow is of our virtue and values which we inherit.

— Anil Sinha

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.

— John Bartholomew Gough

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

Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing.

— Michael Iapoce

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

— James Russell Lowell

Reputation is what people think of you but character is what you think you are.

— Keith Mosaic

Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away.

— William Davis

Reputation is made in a moment. Character is built in a lifetime.

— Anonymous

Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.

— Ashwin Sanghi