“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”
Thomas Paine
“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”
Benjamin Franklin
“What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.”
Eleanor Powell
“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
“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
“Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing.”
Michael Iapoce
“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”
Oscar Wilde
