Man of the Year Finalists

Candlestine romance - Archie Bunker

Character is destiny. - Greek Proverb

Fame is the thirst of youth. - Lord Byron

A rich man has no need of character. - Hebrew Proverb

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity. - J.B. Gough

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. - Leo Rosten

Hedgehogs - why don't they just share the hedge? - Unknown

The essential thing is not knowledge, but character. - Joseph Le Conte

Character is not given to us; we build it ourselves. - Mabel Hale

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. - Oscar Wilde

The miracle is this: the more we share, the more we have. - Leonard Nimoy

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed. - C.H. Parkhurst

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. - Napoleon Hill

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. - George Santayana

Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't really get romance. Bring me fish or moose, not flowers. - Eden Robinson

Most women are afraid of clowns, but somehow end up still dating one. - Unknown

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. - Daniel Webster

The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character. - Emma Dunham Kelley

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. - Erma Bombeck

John Wooden was a hall of fame character long before he was a hall of fame coach. - John C Maxwell

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. - Jean Paul Richter

Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. - Isabel Allende

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. - Paul Bryant

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word. - Lord Chesterfield

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. - James Allen

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. - Joan Baez

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold. - Vanna Bonta

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. - Benjamin Disraeli

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. - Zig Ziglar

A man of character does not expect to be liked by everyone, nor does he worry about being liked by anyone. - Unknown

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. - Nicholas Sparks

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia. - Jack Horner

Sometimes me think, 'What is Friend?' and then me say, 'Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.' - Cookie Monster

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. - Oscar Wilde

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway. - Toni Morrison

A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup. - J G Ballard

I'm not sure which is harder on a relationship: sharing a dresser for three years, or sharing an iPhone charger for one day. - Unknown

Faithfulness is essential to the character of a friend: without this there can be no safety in intimacy with and confidence in him. - Samuel Hopkins