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That must have been the character of the man.
— Swami Vivekananda
One man's priority is another man's extravagence.
— Edwina Currie
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
It is the man who is the missionary, it is not his words. His character is his message.
— Henry Drummond
[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.
— James Boswell
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
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
— Seneca The Younger
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
The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.
— George Whitefield
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
Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.
— Marcus Aurelius
Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
— Pablo Picasso
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
A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
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
Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
— Nikolai Gogol
In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Politics, these days, is no occupation
for an educated man, a man of character.
Ignorance and total lousiness are better. — Aristophanes
for an educated man, a man of character.
Ignorance and total lousiness are better. — Aristophanes
Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.
— Lord Chesterfield
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
— Charlie Chaplin
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
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
Don't write about Man; write about a man.
— E.B. White
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
She unzipped her oversized flannel onesie, created especially for women not interested in finding a man, and tossed it on the bed.
— Kishan Paul
Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell.
— Christopher Hitchens
Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib
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
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.
— Henry Taylor
The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.
— Oswald Chambers
A man's character and honor made him stand above others, not his religion or strata in life.
— Ashley Gardner
There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
— Benjamin Franklin
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
— George Washington
You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.
— Winston Churchill
A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine.
— Raheel Farooq
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
The strength of a man is less of the man and much more of who and what backs the man.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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
The superior man responds; the inferior man reacts.
— Bohdi Sanders
We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.
— Swami Vivekananda
A man's character is best described in his epitaph
— Marilyn L. Rice
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
The superior man is he who develops, in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual, and physical nature.
— Unknown
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
The body will shine if the character is fine; service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm.
— Sathya Sai Baba
Man's character is his fate.
— Heraclitus
Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is]
an interesting role for an actor. — Dolph Lundgren
an interesting role for an actor. — Dolph Lundgren
All that hath been majestical
In life or death, since time began,
Is native in the simple heart of all,
The angel heat of man. — James Russell Lowell
In life or death, since time began,
Is native in the simple heart of all,
The angel heat of man. — James Russell Lowell
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
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
Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.
— Billy Casper
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
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
— Booker T. Washington
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
No man can use his Bible with power unless he has the character of Jesus in his heart.
— Alan Redpath
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 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
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
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
— Hal Holbrook
By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets.
— C.S. Lewis
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
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
A real woman is a work of fiction a real man is a short report
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
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
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
No man can escape the shadow of his own character." Let us hope we are casting the right kind of shadow!
— Abha Maryada Banerjee
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
— John Milton
Man shows his character best in trifles.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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