Top 100 A Man's Character Quotes
#1. You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.
Winston Churchill
#2. Ruth understood a man's character to be more important than youthful romance
Vikki Kestell
#3. To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#4. Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it.
Carlos Fuentes
#6. If a man has to ask for your trust, it's a sure sign that you should not give it. Trust should be earned inherently, without any verbal demands. Trust is knowing a man's character, knowing truth, and relying on that character and truth even when the odds seem against you.
Anne Elisabeth Stengl
#7. Adversity brings out a man's character.
Prosperity kills it.
Manoj Vaz
#8. If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. Developing the man within creates invisible changes in a man's character
Sunday Adelaja
#10. The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.
Lord Chesterfield
#11. Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.
Billy Casper
#12. A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.
John Cena
#13. There is a very great difference - is there not? - between the temporal and the eternal judgments, a very great difference between a man's reputation and a man's character, for reputation is what men think and say of us, while character is what God and the angels know of us.
Price Collier
#14. The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.
John Wooden
#15. A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.
Hesketh Pearson
#16. If you want to know what a man's character is really like ... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.
Sydney J. Harris
#17. No wife ever cleared a man's character, not without a great deal of trouble on the lower decks. So
Gail Carriger
#18. A man's character reveals itself most clearly when he makes a choice under pressure.
Dan Millman
#19. An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.
Ezra Taft Benson
#20. Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#21. Ethos anthropoi daimon
a man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus
#22. Freedom is what we all seek, but it's what we do with that freedom that ultimately defines our character. In the end, a man's character cements his fate, good or bad.
Sonny Barger
#23. A man's character and honor made him stand above others, not his religion or strata in life.
Ashley Gardner
#24. It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
John Osborne
#25. A man's character is his guardian divinity.
Heraclitus
#26. Shouldn't a man's character be judged by the way he lives, not by how much destruction he causes?" "That's
Phoebe Conn
#29. To test a man's character, give him power. Once people have power they will always reveal themselves.
Zelda La Grange
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too.
Anne Bronte
#33. 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
#34. A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
Evan Esar
#35. 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
#36. You can tell a man's character by what he turns up when offered a job - his nose or his sleeves.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#38. Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.
Terry Goodkind
#39. A man's character became involved to the point that he was caught in a mental turmoil which threatened all the values he held and threw them into doubt.
Viktor E. Frankl
#40. There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.
Owen Barfield
#41. What do you believe reveals more about a man's character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?
Aaron B. Powell
#42. The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
Cyril Connolly
#43. Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#44. There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
#45. You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
Richard Dawkins
#46. A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
Henry Ward Beecher
#47. A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain
#49. There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's character and conduct, which is not the less effectual because it works insensibly, and because it is really the last thing he dreams of.
John Herschel
#50. Magic is attracted to good or bad and intensifies them. It fans the sparks that already lie in a man's character. The real power lies in the silence of your heart.
Deepak Chopra
#51. Definitely that kind of owner, he thought. Self-made man proud of his handiwork. Confuses bluffness and honesty with merely being rude. I wouldn't mind betting a dollar that he thinks he can tell a man's character by testing the firmness of his handshake and looking deeply into his eyes.
Terry Pratchett
#52. The measure of a man's character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.
Bill Courtney
#53. Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.
Herman Melville
#54. A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
Frederick Douglass
#55. President Abraham Lincoln once remarked, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Few people have more power than an American president. Being the so-called leader
John C. Maxwell
#56. But I knew a lot more than that; I knew exactly what sort of man he was in his old age, so it wasn't hard to guess what he must have been like as a young man--for a man's character doesn't change after he's thirty. It only becomes more firmly set, and is more deeply marked in his features.
Ralph Moody
#57. Giving your heart away before you are certain of a man's character and commitment is dangerous. You must discern his true intentions or you'll pay a high price.
Carrie Turansky
#58. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
#60. The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.
Agyness Deyn
#61. If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#62. A man's moral character may be completely sapped; that is the dreadful part of it.
Henrik Ibsen
#63. There is a perfect rout of characters in every man - and every man is like an actor's trunk, full of strange creatures, new & old. But an actor and his trunk are two different things
Wallace Stevens
#64. God's Word is as good as He is. There is an old saying that a man is as good as his word. Well, God is as good as His Word. His character is behind what He has said.
J. Vernon McGee
#65. When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
Laurence Olivier
#66. Spider-Man's probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there's nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that.
Zac Efron
#67. What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.
Charles Bukowski
#68. I don't need another 'adversity builds character' speech, Darren. That man is a chauvinistic pig. Where's your adversity?"
Darren raised a brow. "I'm looking at it.
Rachel E. Carter
#69. I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswire across his character and disposition and general outlook. With some men it's secret and we never know it's there until they strike us in the dark one night.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#70. Choice betrays character," I said.
"That's not true." Loring moved his finger along the
sheet as if writing his name in cursive. "Eliza, you can't judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than reactions.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#71. Beneath this warm flesh beats the heart of a compassionate man, one who's fought his whole life to fulfill his people's dream. Just because you feel the need to lean on someone, to accept someone else's strength for a little while doesn't make you weak.
Kylie Griffin
#72. It was hard to judge a man's full character by his bachelor party etiquette.
Lola Dodge
#73. Women have a faith in themselves that is unpragmatic and in each other that's just emotional and f - ing strong. Both of those characters are criticized for being weak, for being subject to a man, but I think that that's a really bold and natural thing that we all want.
Kristen Stewart
#74. What has first drawn him to Max was the man's unyielding character, not whether he was real-life boyfriend material.
K.A. Merikan
#75. There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#76. You are a strange man, Mr. Poe." "So I've been told," Edgar said. "I'd rather be strange than boring. It's a flaw in my character.
David Niall Wilson
#77. The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.
P.G. Wodehouse
#78. He was some kind of a man... What does it matter what you say about people?"
-- Marlene Dietrich's character in Touch Of Evil, originally written by Whit Masterson as Badge Of Evil. One of the best closing sequences you'll see in classical Hollywood
Whit Masterson
#79. 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
#80. Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence gives confidence. There is promise to pay in their faces which gives confidence and you prefer it to another man's endorsement. Character is credit.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#81. Of course you cannot know a man completely,
his character, his principles, sense of judgment,
not till he's shown his colors, ruling the people,
making laws. Experience, there's the test.
Sophocles
#83. Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#84. 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
#85. For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.
Red Smith
#86. What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?
Ann Radcliffe
#87. Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard
#88. Of course he'll bring no money. Nor never will. He's not the type to--accumulate. But it's a good name to have. And he's becoming a personality in the county. One never knows quite why this happens, eh? Not so much what a man does. More a matter of character.
Winston Graham
#89. The quality of a man is not determined by the opinions that others hold of him, nor by the opinions that he holds of himself. The quality of a man is determined only by his actions and the choices that he makes. Only that and that alone.
C. JoyBell C.
#90. In actuality Boaz respected and recognized Ruth's character first. As a result he held her in high regard. You can instantly catch a man's attention, but if you don't have his respect you won't get the relationship you deserve.
Stephan Labossiere
#91. In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.
Robin Williams
#92. There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him to find himself unexpectedly confronted with a task which he has to accomplish entirely on his own initiative and by his own efforts.
Stefan Zweig
#93. To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
P.G. Wodehouse
#94. It's hard to get a movie made about characters these days. We're in a climate where, unless it's based on a toy or it's a superhero where somewhere it ends in man - like Spider-Man, Superman or Iron Man - it's hard to get it made.
Doug Liman
#95. A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.
Henry Ward Beecher
#96. We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments.
Every human act - no matter how large or how small - is a direct expression of
a man's personality, and bears the inevitable impress of his nature.
S. S. Van Dine
#97. A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.
Walter Mosley
#98. The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve.
Charles Dickens
#99. I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded character. And it's not a woman who's just there for the purpose of the man.
Bel Powley
#100. To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't judge a person's character by what they do between the lines. Judge a man by what he does off the field, what he does for his community, what he does for his family.
Richard Sherman
