Character Quote by 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 is like its shadow.

— Abraham Lincoln

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

— Abraham Lincoln

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Anil Sinha

Lincoln described character is a tree and reputation as its shadow. The tree will always be what it is but the shadow we see…

— Michael Josephson

I like characters with flaws, who have shadow.

— Matt Bomer

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

— Ashwin Sanghi

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.

— John Bartholomew Gough

Character is just what we inwardly are and outwardly do.

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Keith Mosaic

Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.

— Robert Quillen