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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

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

Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions. — Raheel Farooq

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

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

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

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

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances. — Confucius

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

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

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

Simon Sparks was an oozing slug of a man poured neatly into a three-piece suit. — C. Robert Cargill

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

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

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

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances. — George Bernard Shaw

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

No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece. — Orison Swett Marden

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

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

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind. — Magha

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war. — James Glover

I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles. — Malcolm Gets

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

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

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

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids. — Aristotle.

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired. — Winston Churchill

You can stop a raging forest fire, a herd of stampeding buffalo or even a runaway freight train, but you can't stop a good man. — John Paul Warren

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own. — Joseph P. Farrell

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

But at the heart of character is the ability to restrain our desires. As a man grows in character, he builds the muscles of self-restraint. — Richard E. Simmons III

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

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. — Malcolm Forbes

My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach. — Kojo Annan

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. — Joshua Reynolds

The history of a man is in his character. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man. — Clint Eastwood

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect. — Charles Krauthammer

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. — Lyndon B. Johnson

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience. — David Lloyd George

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized. — Mary Wollstonecraft

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given. — Mahatma Gandhi

A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself. — Shannon L. Alder

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him. — J.G. Holland

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

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man. — Carroll O'Connor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a man to redeem his character. — John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives? — Nicholas Sparks

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

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

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. — George Bernard Shaw

A sovereign of high character and intelligence must be able to know the right man, should place the responsibility on him, and expect results. — Sun Tzu

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

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

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

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis. — Ralph W. Sockman

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

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

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

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

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