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Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

A person's character and their garden both reflect the amount of weeding that was done in the growing season.

Character is not made in a crisis, it is only exhibited

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. --Elizabeth Clarke Dunn

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.--Ralph Waldo Emerson

It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it. -- The Colloquies of Erasmus

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.-- Ava Gardner , Quoted in: Roland Flamini, Ava, ch. 8 (1983)

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ~Abraham Lincoln, quoted in Anthony Gross, Lincoln's Own Stories (1912)

Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.-- Mary Ann Kelty

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) in Gross _Lincoln's Own Stories_ (1912) p. 109

Character is what you are in the dark.--Moody, Dwight L. (1827-1899 Attributed in William R. Moody _D. L. Moody_ (1930) ch. 66

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.- Brooke Foss Westcott

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