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The character of a man is known from his conversations. -- Menander
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.... -- Joshua Reynolds
But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men. -- James Madison
Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
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
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
Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be. -- James Freeman Clarke
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
On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. -- Samuel Johnson
Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him. -- Samuel Smiles
Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better. -- Anais Nin
The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is, survives him. It can never be buried. -- J.R. Miller
It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned. -- Edmund Burke
I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.' -- Dan Quisenberry
What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent? -- Plato
The only equitable manner in my opinion, of judging the character of a man is to examine if there are personal calculations in his conduct; if there are not, we may blame his manner of judging, but we are not the less bound to esteem him. -- Madame de Stael
All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader? -- Hakeem Olajuwon
The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification-that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly... -- John Galt
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. -- Joshua Reynolds
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. -- Cyril Connolly
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis. -- Ralph W. Sockman
Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character. -- John Ciardi
Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect. -- Charles Krauthammer
I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles. -- Malcolm Gets
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. -- Herbert Read
I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man. -- Clint Eastwood
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. -- Frederick Douglass
As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character. -- Tommy Franks
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor. -- Aaron Paul
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
The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs. -- William Kingdon Clifford
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. -- Francis Bacon
I'm a gay man who came from the last years of illegality. That focused my whole character. I think it focused everyone's character in a way. You saw yourself as outside of the main structure. -- Rupert Everett
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! -- Luigi Pirandello
I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the book without them. But I think what propels me as a reader is plot and character. -- David Mitchell
A man's character is his fate. -- Heraclitus
Character, not circumstances, makes the man. -- Booker T. Washington
The greatest possesion of man is character -- Marcus Garvey
A man's character is his guardian divinity. -- Heraclitus
Man shows his character best in trifles. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity -- Swami Vivekananda
The man that makes a character, makes foes. -- Edward Young
Man's character is the product of his premises. -- Ayn Rand
Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him. -- J. G. Holland
A man's character is best described in his epitaph -- Marilyn L. Rice
A man without enemies is a man without character. -- Paul Newman
The history of a man is in his character. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk. -- Charles Chaplin
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk. -- Charles Chaplin
A man of bad character punishes his own soul. -- Al-Ghazali
Character is what a man is in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody
A man without enemies is a man without character. -- Paul Newman
We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas. -- Swami Vivekananda
The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue. -- Oswald Chambers
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control. -- Thomas A. Edison
Plot makes the character just as history makes the man. -- Thomas Steinbeck
Good moral character is the first essential in a man. -- George Washington
A man kept his character even when he was insane. -- Graham Greene
To find a man's true character, play golf with him. -- P. G. Wodehouse
A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character -- Thomas Jefferson
I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man. -- Val Kilmer
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A man with no enemies is a man with no character. -- Paul Newman
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps -- J. C. Ryle
Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence. -- Terry Goodkind
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself. -- Charles de Gaulle
A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does. -- Jean de la Bruyere
A man must be very inert to have no character at all. -- Jean de la Bruyere
In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded. -- Thomas Carlyle
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. -- John Morley
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character. -- Thomas A. Edison
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements -- Earl Warren
It is character that counts in a nation as in a man. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I haven't aged into a character actor. I'm an old leading man. -- Stewart Granger
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel." -- Napoleon Hill
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. -- Napoleon Hill
A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine. -- Raheel Farooq
The sole purpose of universal justice is to keep man's character in balance -- Judy Azar LeBlanc
A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name. -- Evan Esar
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war. -- James Glover
You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure. -- Winston Churchill
Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom. -- Sivananda
Charisma gets the attention of man and character gets the attention of God. -- Rich Wilkerson Jr.
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned? -- George Bernard Shaw
Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does. -- Iris Murdoch
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. -- William J. H. Boetcker
[Peter Norman] was a man of principle and pride, had a strong moral character. -- John Carlos
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers. -- Jean Paul
I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man. -- John Travolta
If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility. -- Charles de Gaulle
The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired. -- Winston Churchill
I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor. -- Robin Williams
The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong. -- David Adams Richards
I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type. -- Burgess Meredith
A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. -- Mark Twain
Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character. -- Woody Hayes
Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love -- Bhagat Singh
A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character. -- Henry Hazlitt
Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. -- Seneca the Younger
I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be. -- Dave Bautista
Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves -- Saint Augustine
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. -- Elbert Hubbard
A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind. -- Magha
Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man. -- Maimonides

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