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Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being. — Nikolai Gogol

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

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another. — Winston Churchill

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

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

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character. — Lord Chesterfield

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

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

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

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

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. — George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. — Henri Frederic Amiel

The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects. — Bill Vaughan

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word. — Buffalo Bill

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

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

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

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

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

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

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character. — William Mathews

No wife ever cleared a man's character, not without a great deal of trouble on the lower decks. So — Gail Carriger

The skin of my character in 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' was some concoction, a spermatozoon of an alien nature that was obscene and weird-looking. — David Bowie

Judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. — Martin Luther King Jr.

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him. — Saul Bellow

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions. — James Mill

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. — Eleanor Roosevelt

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man. — Epictetus

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing. — Douglas Southall Freeman

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

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. — Frederick Douglass

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character. — Booker T. Washington

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

A man does not have the character of God if he does not have the fruit of the Holy Spirit. — Sunday Adelaja

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions. — Swami Vivekananda

Intuition is the lifeblood of a woman and the essential character of a man.-Serena Jade — Serena Jade

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse? — Sue Grafton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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