Top 100 Man S Character Quotes
#2. Not only thinking and feeling are determined by man's character structure but also his actions.
Erich Fromm
#3. Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.
Woody Hayes
#4. You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.
Winston Churchill
#5. Ruth understood a man's character to be more important than youthful romance
Vikki Kestell
#6. Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps
J.C. Ryle
#7. 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
#8. To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#9. Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it.
Carlos Fuentes
#11. 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
#12. It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.
Mark Twain
#13. Adversity brings out a man's character.
Prosperity kills it.
Manoj Vaz
#14. 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
#15. Developing the man within creates invisible changes in a man's character
Sunday Adelaja
#16. The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.
Lord Chesterfield
#17. Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.
Billy Casper
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. But she would not think better of him just because he possessed the decency not to blackmail her. Refusing to take advantage of a woman should be a basic part of any man's character, and lauding him for it would be like commending someone for having lungs to breathe with.
Meljean Brook
#21. Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Thomas A. Edison
#22. The voice is not only indicative of man's character, but it is the expression of his spirit. Other sounds can be louder than the voice, but no sound can be more living.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#23. The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.
John Wooden
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield.
David O. McKay
#27. No wife ever cleared a man's character, not without a great deal of trouble on the lower decks. So
Gail Carriger
#28. What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
Thomas A. Edison
#29. A man's character reveals itself most clearly when he makes a choice under pressure.
Dan Millman
#30. 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
#31. 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
#33. Ethos anthropoi daimon
a man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus
#34. 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
#35. A man's character and honor made him stand above others, not his religion or strata in life.
Ashley Gardner
#36. It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
John Osborne
#37. A man's character is his guardian divinity.
Heraclitus
#38. Shouldn't a man's character be judged by the way he lives, not by how much destruction he causes?" "That's
Phoebe Conn
#39. Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#42. To test a man's character, give him power. Once people have power they will always reveal themselves.
Zelda La Grange
#43. 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
#44. Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.
Francis Arinze
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
Evan Esar
#49. 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
#50. You can tell a man's character by what he turns up when offered a job - his nose or his sleeves.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#53. Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.
Terry Goodkind
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. What do you believe reveals more about a man's character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?
Aaron B. Powell
#57. The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
Cyril Connolly
#58. Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: ... with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history.
John Ruskin
#63. A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain
#65. Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character is strong; no nation's life can be lasting.
Orson F. Whitney
#66. When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Man's character is the product of his premises.
Ayn Rand
#71. The measure of a man's character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.
Bill Courtney
#72. 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
#73. A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
Frederick Douglass
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. The sole purpose of universal justice is to keep man's character in balance
Judy Azar LeBlanc
#77. 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
#78. A hit man's character is defined above all by narcissism, that complex mix of egotism and self-hatred.
Suketu Mehta
#79. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. A man's moral character may be completely sapped; that is the dreadful part of it.
Henrik Ibsen
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. If you want to know the real character of man, intentionally and timely give him the test of 3d's; delay, denial and disappointment
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#87. When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
Laurence Olivier
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.
Henry Ward Beecher
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. It was hard to judge a man's full character by his bachelor party etiquette.
Lola Dodge
#96. 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
#97. What has first drawn him to Max was the man's unyielding character, not whether he was real-life boyfriend material.
K.A. Merikan
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
