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A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. -- Herbert Read
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself. -- Charles de Gaulle
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war. -- James Glover
A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine. -- Raheel Farooq
A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility. -- Charles de Gaulle
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself -- Charles de Gaulle
I try to act as a man of character if no one is watching or if the world is watching. -- Deshaun Watson
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
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. -- Charles de Gaulle
A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities. -- Charles de Gaulle
The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior. -- Earl Warren
Every man of character will have that character questioned. Every man of honor and courage will be faced with unjust criticism, but never forget that unjust criticism has no impact whatsoever upon the truth. And the only sure way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be nothing. -- Andy Andrews
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. -- Napoleon Hill
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. -- John Morley
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. -- Cyril Connolly
The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man. -- Elie Metchnikoff
Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man. -- Edward Thorndike
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis. -- Ralph W. Sockman
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect. -- Charles Krauthammer
Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character. -- John Ciardi
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
That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension. -- Jack Coleman
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
If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation. -- Gouverneur Morris
I like making fun of myself; I don't want to make fun of other people, so I don't mind doing something out of character that some people might not expect me to do. -- Eli Manning
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. -- Plato
Character, not circumstances, makes the man. -- Booker T. Washington
A man's character is his fate. -- Heraclitus
Man shows his character best in trifles. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest possesion of man is character -- Marcus Garvey
A man's character is his guardian divinity. -- Heraclitus
Man's character is the product of his premises. -- Ayn Rand
Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity -- Swami Vivekananda
The man that makes a character, makes foes. -- Edward Young
Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man without enemies is a man without character. -- Paul Newman
A man's character is best described in his epitaph -- Marilyn L. Rice
A man without enemies is a man without character. -- Paul Newman
Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him. -- J. G. Holland
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
The history of a man is in his character. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To find a man's true character, play golf with him. -- P. G. Wodehouse
We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas. -- Swami Vivekananda
Good moral character is the first essential in a man. -- George Washington
The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue. -- Oswald Chambers
A man kept his character even when he was insane. -- Graham Greene
Plot makes the character just as history makes the man. -- Thomas Steinbeck
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control. -- Thomas A. Edison
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 marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence. -- Terry Goodkind
A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character -- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps -- J. C. Ryle
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man. -- Val Kilmer
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
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel." -- Napoleon Hill
In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded. -- Thomas Carlyle
A man must be very inert to have no character at all. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character. -- Thomas A. Edison
I haven't aged into a character actor. I'm an old leading man. -- Stewart Granger
A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does. -- Jean de la Bruyere
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.... -- Joshua Reynolds
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned? -- George Bernard Shaw
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
Charisma gets the attention of man and character gets the attention of God. -- Rich Wilkerson Jr.
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
being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does. -- Iris Murdoch
If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man. -- John Travolta
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers. -- Jean Paul
[Peter Norman] was a man of principle and pride, had a strong moral character. -- John Carlos
I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor. -- Robin Williams
I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type. -- Burgess Meredith
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. -- William J. H. Boetcker
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
There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong. -- David Adams Richards
The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party. -- Lord Chesterfield
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
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
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. -- Elbert Hubbard
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind. -- Magha
You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals. -- Paul McCartney
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
Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man. -- Maimonides
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character. -- John D. Rockefeller
You can tell a lot about a man's character by how he behaves when given anonymity.. -- Dinesh Kumar Biran
There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character? -- Idris Elba
I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles. -- Malcolm Gets
It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly. -- John Osborne
The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching. -- John Wooden
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another. -- Winston Churchill
Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor. -- Rafe Spall
Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man. -- Samuel Smiles

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