Character Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

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

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is…

— John Bartholomew Gough

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

— Djuna Barnes

“The shadow is a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it in some form. It cannot be argued out…

— Carl Jung

“The Shadow Self is a personal aspect to each of us. It acts as a trixter-psychopomp, who if we listen carefully, can reveal to…

— Bishop Harber

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but…

— Djuna Barnes

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

— J. G. Holland

A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.

— Joanne Harris

The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.…

— Carl Jung

“There are episodes in most men's lives in which their highest qualities can only cast a deterring shadow over the objects that fill their…

— George Eliot