Man of the Year Finalists

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. - Socrates

Character is not what you are in the dark. - Unknown

Sports do not build character; they reveal it. - Unknown

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

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. - Leo Rosten

Habits form character, and character forms destiny. - James Allen

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

Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone. - Cyrus A. Bartol

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once. - Phyllis Diller

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

A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game. - Unknown

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

Collaborate with others who share you vision to see the bigger picture. - Richard Branson

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. - Peter F Drucker

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

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

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. - Ronald Reagan

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. - Henry David Thoreau

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

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself. - Ginnifer Goodwin

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

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people. - Chuck Palahniuk

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. - Lin Yutang

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. - Buddha

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. - Helen Rowland

One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little. - Alexander Chase

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

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. - Albert Einstein

I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life. - Paula Deen

What we value shapes our character and will ultimately define how we lead, or whether we can lead at all. - Unknown

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

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. - Dale Carnegie

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it. - Don Fraser

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different. - Harvey Mackay

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

Leadership is all about caring, daring and sharing. Caring for people, Daring to Act fearlessly, and Sharing the success with all. - Sujit Lalwani

People share, read and generally engage more with any type of content when it's surfaced through friends and people they know and trust. - Malorie Lucich

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare. - Voltaire