Man of the Year Finalists

I do. That is character! - Theodore Roosevelt

Hire character. Train skill. - Peter Schutz

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

Death ends a life, not a relationship. - Jack Lemmon

Romance is the icing, the love is the cake. - Unknown

Sports do not build character; they reveal it. - John Wooden

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

The great hope of society is individual character. - William Ellery Channing

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

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

To praise great actions is in some sense to share them. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. - Solon

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice. - Benjamin Disraeli

Fame: The advantage of being known to those who do not know us. - Sebastien Chamfort

Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character. - Brian Tracy

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them. - Leo Rosten

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. - Oscar Wilde

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

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. - Zig Ziglar

Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. - Faith Baldwin

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling. - Stephen R. Covey

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell

We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life. - Jacqueline Bisset

We learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion. - Andrea Thompson

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it. - George Clooney

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. - Oscar Wilde

If a man's character is to be abused, there's nobody like a relative to do the business. - Alexander Pope

Character is that which reveals moral purposes, exposing the class of things man chooses or avoids. - Aristotle

Don't be accusing me of taking a bribe. You know what they call that, "definition of character." - Archie Bunker

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway

A relationship without trust is like a car without gas. You can stay in it all you want, but it won't go anywhere. - Jay Shetty

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do. - William Henry Channing

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. - Antonin Scalia

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs. - Joan Didion

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. - John Maxwell

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. - Andre Maurois

The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions. - Harvey Mackay

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character. - J K Rowling

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. - Epicurus