Quotes about Man's Character

A man's character is his fate. Votes: 4

A man's character is his guardian divinity. Votes: 4

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. Votes: 4

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. Votes: 4

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name. Votes: 4

Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity Votes: 3

A man's character is best described in his epitaph Votes: 3

Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous. Votes: 3

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue. Votes: 3

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control. Votes: 3

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence. Votes: 3

Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps Votes: 3

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character. Votes: 3

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character. Votes: 3

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure. Votes: 3

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. Votes: 3

The sole purpose of universal justice is to keep man's character in balance Votes: 3

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. Votes: 3

There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong. Votes: 3

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune. Votes: 3

Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character. Votes: 3

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. Votes: 3

The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party. Votes: 3

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly. Votes: 3

You can tell a lot about a man's character by how he behaves when given anonymity.. Votes: 3

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching. Votes: 3

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense. Votes: 3

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. Votes: 3

To test a man's character, give him power. Once people have power they will always reveal themselves. Votes: 3

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Votes: 3

Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral. Votes: 3

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. Votes: 3

There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. Votes: 3

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame. Votes: 3

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business. Votes: 3

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water. Votes: 3

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. Votes: 3

A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall. Votes: 3

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole. Votes: 3

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Character, not circumstances, makes the man. Votes: 2

The man that makes a character, makes foes. Votes: 2

Character is what a man is in the dark. Votes: 2

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk. Votes: 2

The character of a man is known from his conversations. Votes: 2

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man. Votes: 2

To find a man's true character, play golf with him. Votes: 2

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. Votes: 2

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. Votes: 2

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. Votes: 2

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. Votes: 2

If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character. Votes: 2

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Man's character is the product of his premises. Votes: 0

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk. Votes: 0

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. Votes: 0

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character Votes: 0

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded. Votes: 0

The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character. Votes: 0

being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does. Votes: 0

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. Votes: 0

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals. Votes: 0

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms. Votes: 0

Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows. Votes: 0

I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be. Votes: 0

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character. Votes: 0

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part. Votes: 0

It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor. Votes: 0

A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is. Votes: 0

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics. Votes: 0

Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor. Votes: 0

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides. Votes: 0

The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character. Votes: 0

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel. Votes: 0

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. Votes: 0

Listen to a man's words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character? Votes: 0

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal. Votes: 0

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face? Votes: 0

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory. Votes: 0

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. Votes: 0

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. Votes: 0

The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures. Votes: 0

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body. Votes: 0

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies . Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Strength of character and inner fortitude, however, are decisive factors. The confidence of the man in the ranks rests upon a man's strength of character. Votes: 0

As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a man of strong character, deep conviction, unforgettable charm, and wonderful wit. Votes: 0

A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It's a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil. Votes: 0

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0