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What a man's mind can create, man's character can control. — Thomas A. Edison

I do not want a player who is a perfect man and has a fantastic character. That's the kind of guy I want for my daughter as a man. — Jose Mourinho

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

A man's moral character may be completely sapped; that is the dreadful part of it. — Henrik Ibsen

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

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

Having shot Stilt Man in the taint with a bazooka
I've come to realize every character is somebody's favorite character. — Matt Fraction

A woman is a poem, a man is a report — Bangambiki Habyarimana

It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor. — Rafe Spall

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides. — Alexander Smith

Every person has a different view of another person's image. That's all perception. The character of a man, the integrity, that's who you are. — Steve Alford

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

It depresses me when people expect me to be like the characters I play on film. I'm not some whiny loser punk, I'm a man's man. — Zach Braff

I'm not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It's a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil. — Jonathan Maberry

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

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water. — Paul Eldridge

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

Listen to a man's words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character? — Mencius

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. — C.S. Lewis

A man's character reveals itself most clearly when he makes a choice under pressure. — Dan Millman

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him. — Walter Mosley

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

It is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole. — Elizabeth Wordsworth

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

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory. — Alison Goodman

He is a man who kicks at cats, said Solembum, as if that summed up Tenga's entire character. — Christopher Paolini

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

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

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong. — Colin Firth

The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting
the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

A man's worth can be judged through those who dislike him. — Bill Loguidice

I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway. — Mark Ruffalo

A man never discloses his character so clearly as when he descibes another's — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. — Mark Twain

The World is quick to label you, but it will take ages to take a stand! — Avijeet Das

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character — Thomas Jefferson

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. — Mark Twain

There are complete men and incomplete men. If you would be a complete man, put all of your soul's strength into all of your life's actions. — Eugenio Maria De Hostos

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics. — Jeremy Renner

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
— Evan Esar

Consider a man's good qualities, and consider his faults; and judge his character by that which is more. — Thiruvalluvar

Affliction is a good man's shining time. — Edward Young

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

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

A man's work and the conditions under which it is performed are tremendous factors in determining his character. — Charles A. Beard

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

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered. — Richard Dawkins

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching. — John Wooden

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. — Elbert Hubbard

What has first drawn him to Max was the man's unyielding character, not whether he was real-life boyfriend material. — K.A. Merikan

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

The measure of a man's character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures. — Bill Courtney

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

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. — Cyril Connolly

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it. — Carlos Fuentes

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A man's character is his guardian divinity. — Heraclitus

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

To find a man's true character, play golf with him. — P.G. Wodehouse

You can tell a man's character by what he turns up when offered a job - his nose or his sleeves. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

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

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Shouldn't a man's character be judged by the way he lives, not by how much destruction he causes?" "That's — Phoebe Conn

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly. — John Osborne

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

Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink. — John Taliaferro

A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall. — John Cena

A man's library opens up his character to the world. — Matthew Pearl

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 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

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