Reputation vs. Character

Reputation is seeming; character is being.

Reputation is manufactured; character is grown.

Reputation is your photograph; character is your face.

Reputation is what men say you are; character is what God knows you are.

Reputation is what you need to get a job; character is what you need to keep it.

Reputation is what comes over you from without; character is what rises up within.

Reputation is what you have when you come to town; character is what you have when you go away.

Reputation is what is chiseled on your tombstone;
character is what the angels say about you before the throne of God.

- Quote by Robert Stuart MacArthur, Quick Truths in Quaint Texts

Actions, Not Words

"You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter."

- Nicholas Sparks

Reputation

"Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well."

- Benjamin Franklin

Reputation and Character

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

- Thomas Paine

Trees And Shadows

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

- Abraham Lincoln