Saint Augustine Quotes

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

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

If you want to go into the court of world opinion, you had better go in with clean hands.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

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

Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.

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.

For how can you compete Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbour's eyes?

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

My character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to hold that strong.

We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

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

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

You're always concerned for your character. You should be.

You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete. People always say to me, 'Your image is this, your image is that.' Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person. That's what I worry about.

Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.