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