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Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves — Augustine Of Hippo

A man's character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate. — Paul Eldridge

Developing the man within creates invisible changes in a man's character — Sunday Adelaja

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals. — Paul McCartney

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial. — Kevin Schmidt

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal. — James Boswell

Was a man who wrote his own press kit, and his generosity was a calculated piece of an intracately constructed character — Khaled Hosseini

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States. — Edmund Randolph

Ruth understood a man's character to be more important than youthful romance — Vikki Kestell

To test a man's character, give him power. Once people have power they will always reveal themselves. — Zelda La Grange

Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one. — Raheel Farooq

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others. — Marcus Aurelius

A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is. — Jack Miner

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. — Nathanael Emmons

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character. — John Ciardi

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man. — Newell Dwight Hillis

Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work. — Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. — Abraham Lincoln

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Adversity brings out a man's character.
Prosperity kills it. — Manoj Vaz

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part. — Laurence Olivier

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man. — Brad Pitt

He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete. — Jane Austen

The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family. — Ellen J. Barrier

Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity. — Jack W. Hayford

Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather. — Robertson Davies

Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm,
none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship. — Henry Van Dyke

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants. — Cassandra Clare

Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character — Edward Bates

She unzipped her oversized flannel onesie, created especially for women not interested in finding a man, and tossed it on the bed. — Kishan Paul

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him. — Benjamin Franklin

It takes a man of unusual character to openly confront his own shortcomings. It's so much more convenient to blame others. — Raymond E. Feist

Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has. — Tom Landry

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel. — Henry Taylor

Don't write about Man; write about a man. — E.B. White

The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character. — Jean-Louis Barrault

A man's character and honor made him stand above others, not his religion or strata in life. — Ashley Gardner

If your clothes are tight , you mean a man can hold tight on you , if they are lose you mean you can hold tight to a man — Bangambiki Habyarimana

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face? — Ann Radcliffe

You should have noticed by now, sometimes a monster looks just like any other man. — Helen Maryles Shankman

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them. — Phyllis Bottome

You are a strange man, Mr. Poe." "So I've been told," Edgar said. "I'd rather be strange than boring. It's a flaw in my character. — David Niall Wilson

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written. — Samuel Johnson

The character of a man is known from his conversations. — Menander

Being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does. — Iris Murdoch

Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.] — Virginia Woolf

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man. — John Travolta

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. — William J.H. Boetcker

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body. — Christopher Stocking

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. — James Allen

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character. — Harry S. Truman

There is scarce any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself — Henry Fielding

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Character, not circumstance, make a man. — Andy Andrews

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world. — Henry Ward Beecher

The measure of a man is what he does with power. — Plato

I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man. — Val Kilmer

Ethos anthropoi daimon
a man's character is his fate. — Heraclitus

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It's hard to live in a man's world when you are not the only woman in it — Bangambiki Habyarimana

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character. — Osamu Dazai

a man without birth, without courage, without conduct. For my part, I declare, sir, it shall never be said that I made such a man my master. — Sarah Vowell

A hit man's character is defined above all by narcissism, that complex mix of egotism and self-hatred. — Suketu Mehta

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame. — Billy Casper

Character is what a man is in the dark — D.L. Moody

The character of a dwelling, like that of a man, grows slowly. — Beryl Markham

Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is]
an interesting role for an actor. — Dolph Lundgren

A man or a woman can't be defined by the pain inflicted in them by others or by someone else's issues, but by their own character and actions. — Linda Alfiori

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. — Norman Douglas

The Mets have heart and character, and I need a man who can root for the underdog. I refuse to sleep with a Yankees fan. — Jennifer Probst

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character. — Tommy Franks

Character is what is hidden deep, shows up in the worst of times, be it good or bad, and reflects the heart of a man. — Robin M. Bertram

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything. — James Boswell

What do you believe reveals more about a man's character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it? — Aaron B. Powell

Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell. — Raheel Farooq

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed. — Robert E.Lee

Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man. — Samuel Smiles

A real woman is a work of fiction a real man is a short report — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone. — Henry David Thoreau

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage. — Samuel Johnson

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself. — Lois McMaster Bujold

A man's character is best described in his epitaph — Marilyn L. Rice

The strength of a man is less of the man and much more of who and what backs the man. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure. — Winston Churchill

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk. — Charlie Chaplin

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy. — Lord Chesterfield

Politics, these days, is no occupation
for an educated man, a man of character.
Ignorance and total lousiness are better. — Aristophanes

A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine. — Raheel Farooq

As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man's character. — Robin Hobb

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man kept his character even when he was insane. — Graham Greene

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character. — Thomas A. Edison

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue. — Oswald Chambers

Even in a man without character, there's still a spark of Christmas. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The character of a man is seldom revealed when things go well. — Ruth Cardello

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. — Orison Swett Marden