Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow; the shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing."
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
"The mind, once stretched by a new experience, never returns to its original dimensions."
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."