A Quote by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
French - Diplomat
February 2, 1754 - May 17, 1838

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs

Gautama Buddha

As a negotiator, you should strive for a reputation of being fair. Your reputation precedes you. Let it precede you in a way that paves success.

Christopher Voss

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

Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.

Ryan Holiday

My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.

Tennessee Williams

My reputation precedes me now.

Dwayne Johnson

Peace follows love energy like a shadow.

Rajneesh

In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it

Epictetus

My reputation precedes me all the time, but I'm not the monster people think I am.

Sylvie Guillem

This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

Al-Ghazali

Lincoln described character is a tree and reputation as its shadow. The tree will always be what it is but the shadow we see depends on where we stand and the angle of the light.