Man of the Year Finalists

Candlestine romance - Archie Bunker

Hire character. Train skill. - Peter Schutz

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

Adversity tests a man's true character. - Unknown

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. - Henry Winkler

Life always takes on the character of its motive. - J.G. Holland

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

Appropriate rules cultivate a disciplined character. - Bill Welker

The desire for fame is the last weakness wise men put off. - Tacitus

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character. - Paul Newman

Character is the root of the tree; conduct, the fruit it bears. - E.M. Bounds

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is of little traits that the greatest human character is composed. - William Winter

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

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. - Lady Bird Johnson

I was always a character actor: I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood. - Paul Newman

Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame. - Baltasar Gracian

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. - Truman Capote

I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts. - Beverly Sills

No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them. - J. Petit Senn

As a man in a relationship, you have a simple choice: You can be right or you can be happy. - Ralphie May

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

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

Character is, in the long run, the decisive factor in the life of individuals and of nations alike. - Theodore Roosevelt

It's against all of our policies for an application to ever share information with advertisers. - Mark Zuckerberg

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have a great relationship with the blacks. I've always had a great relationship with the blacks. - Donald Trump

If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance. - Suze Orman

Going without food or water will kill the body, but the lack of relationship will kill the minds and spirit. - David Jeremiah

Remember that your best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. - Unknown

The greatest mistake we humans make in our relationships: we listen half, understand quarter, think zero, and react double. - Unknown

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

Imagining what a character will do in a given situation - it's like an equation, and working it out is a marathon rather than a sprint. - Callum Turner

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

Education commences on the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. - Hosea Ballou

More people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting. - Stephen Covey