Quotes About Character And Reputation

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Your NAME and your REPUTATION is ALL that you have, so GUARD them. They are worth more than money or gold.

L. Michelle

#4. Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Thomas Paine

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. The character of the person would outweigh the color of his skin and the reputation of his heritage.

R.A. Salvatore

#9. A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

Henry Ward Beecher

#10. And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

Charles Dickens

#16. Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputetion is who people think you re.

John Wooden

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

Josh Billings

#20. 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

#21. Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.

Billy Sunday

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Reputation is what people think we are; character is what God and the holy angels know we are.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.

Napoleon Hill

#33. 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

#34. 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