Top 83 Character Reputation Sayings
#1. Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.
Michael Bassey
#2. I take it you know my companion?"
Oh,yes!" said Savage, his smile disappearing. "We know all about Ruby Journey. Please don't let her kill anyone important. Or set fire to anything."
Your reputation precedes you," Random said dryly to Ruby.
Simon R. Green
#3. Some think the only way to get even, to get attention or advantage, or to win is to bash people. This kind of behavior is never appropriate. Oftentimes character and reputation and almost always self-esteem are destroyed under the hammer of this vicious practice.
Marvin J. Ashton
#4. The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.
Jose Iturbi
#5. Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
#6. Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#7. It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made
so faithful is the public.
Arnold Bennett
#8. If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.
Shannon L. Alder
#9. Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
#10. False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.
Jean De La Bruyere
#11. And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
Vincent D'Onofrio
#12. A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
Henry Ward Beecher
#13. The character of the person would outweigh the color of his skin and the reputation of his heritage.
R.A. Salvatore
#14. The murderer only takes the life of the parent and leaves his character as a goodly heritage to his children, whilst the slanderer takes away his goodly reputation and leaves him a living monument to his children's disgrace.
Andrew Jackson
#15. Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.
Cat Stevens
#16. A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
John Bartholomew Gough
#17. Your NAME and your REPUTATION is ALL that you have, so GUARD them. They are worth more than money or gold.
L. Michelle
#18. Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away.
William Davis
#19. To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.
Josh Billings
#20. If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
D.L. Moody
#21. What we do in public determines our reputation; what we do in private determines our character.
Max Anders
#22. Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.
Ashwin Sanghi
#23. Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Thomas Paine
#24. The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit ... a reputation, character.
John D. Rockefeller
#25. We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.
William Hazlitt
#26. Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.
Robert Quillen
#27. Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.
John Wooden
#28. Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn't understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.
Melika Dannese Lux
#29. Be more interested in character than reputation
John Wooden
#30. Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputetion is who people think you re.
John Wooden
#31. She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.
Charles Dickens
#32. A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is.
Jack Miner
#33. Reputation is what men say about you on your tombstone;
Character is what the angels say about you before the throne of God
William Hersey Davis
#34. Develop your character; there is no need to be concerned about reputation.
Debasish Mridha
#35. Many good people mistake their reputation for their character. It is a mistake I have made many, many times.
John McCain
#36. 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 people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
Henry Ward Beecher
#37. Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.
Napoleon Hill
#38. Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Thomas Paine
#39. Your reputation has no duplicate. You are one till the end of time. Once it is damaged, a fresh personality cannot spring from the old one.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#40. Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
Billie Jean King
#41. 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 along and tries to piss on it. But if you fall asleep and neglect it ... You'll wake up with ashes.
Zachary Taylor
#42. The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.
Madame De Stael
#43. think my father came to believe long ago what Rhett Butler told Scarlett: reputation is something people with character can do without. Character and character
Sally Mann
#44. Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private.
Myles Munroe
#46. Ethics and Attitude Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Character is what you really are. Reputation is what people say you are. Character is more important.
John Wooden
#48. If you have to choose between character and reputation. Choose character every single time. Then you can be authentic and straight. Nothing to lose.
Parashar Pandya
#49. I would rather suffer with truth than celebrate with lies.
Orrin Woodward
#50. Reputation is what others think you are; character is what God knows you are.
Anonymous
#51. Reputation is made in a moment; Character is built over a lifetime.
Elizabeth George
#52. Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard
#53. Reputation is what people expect us to do next. It's their expectation of the quality and character of the next thing we produce or say or do.
We control our actions (even when it feels like we don't) and our actions over time (especially when we think no one is looking) earn our reputation.
Seth Godin
#54. Your reputation is what others think of you; your character is what you truly are. Reputations can be manipulated; character can only be developed and maintained.
Bohdi Sanders
#55. Reputation is what people think we are; character is what God and the holy angels know we are.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#56. A good reputation may be worth millions,
but a good character is worth all the riches of the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#57. Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.
Will Self
#58. Lincoln described character is a tree and reputation as its shadow. The tree will always be what it is but the shadow we see depends on where we stand and the angle of the light.
Michael Josephson
#59. Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.
Napoleon Hill
#60. Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.
Alvan Macauley
#61. Be the kind of person others admire, can count on, trust, and enjoy spending time with. After you have developed that reputation, people will start to ask you what you do and you will be amazed at how many people will want to work with you. You will attract others based on your character.
Larry Winget
#62. Reputation shows who people think you are. Character shows who you really are.
Craig Groeschel
#63. Most writers deserve the reputation posterity has bestowed upon them: You can't for long conceal the toxic spots on your character - Philip Larkin is Exhibit A - nor can you conceal your dignity, your humanism, your regard for veracity and freedom.
William Giraldi
#64. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
#65. Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for.
Ronald Reagan
#66. Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.
Billy Sunday
#67. Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
Wayne W. Dyer
#68. Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
J.G. Holland
#69. Ka'b ibn Malik reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Two hungry wolves loose among sheep do not cause as much damage as that caused to a man's deen by his greed for money and reputation.
Muhammad Al-Tirmidhi
#71. Some of us are more concerned with our reputation than our character. The latter takes care of the former.
LeCrae
#72. There is a very great difference - is there not? - between the temporal and the eternal judgments, a very great difference between a man's reputation and a man's character, for reputation is what men think and say of us, while character is what God and the angels know of us.
Price Collier
#74. Your reputation is what you're perceived to be,
Your character is what you really are
John Wooden
#75. The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.
Lord Chesterfield
#76. Such public shaming is rampant and sometimes appropriate, but unfortunately, in recent years, shaming has morphed into coordinated reputation murders, and anyone who is slightly insensitive or not PC enough can be led to a public character lynching without due process.
Gudjon Bergmann
#77. What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#79. If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.
Gouverneur Morris
#80. If you pay too much attention to your reputation, you could lose your character.
Michael Josephson
#81. A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#83. When we justify a flaw we are actually inventing a new one. When a woman neglects developing her own character, she not only chisels away her own reputation, but the reputation of everyone in her household.
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Michael Ben Zehabe
