Man of the Year Finalists

Hire character. Train skill. - Peter Schutz

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. - Henry Winkler

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

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

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock. - Charles Simmons

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. - Dag Hammarskjold

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

It takes more love to share the saddle than it does to share the bed. - Unknown

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

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. - John Wooden

Find someone who will change your life, not just your relationship status. - Abdul'Rauf Hashmi

I wanted a man who wouldn't stray so I'm dating a guy on house arrest. - Kim Bove

The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune. - Amelia Earhart

Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything. - Walt Whitman

The meek shall inherit the world, but they'll never increase market share. - William G McGowan

Making mistakes reveals human nature. How one deals with them reveals character. - Unknown

Sharing oft leaves less. But with love the more we share, the fuller our hearts. - J. Benson

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

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

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

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

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. - Aeschylus

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

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw. - Harvey Mackay

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

You've probably got a device on you that can shoot decent video, so what's stopping you? Capture and share some moments. - Steve Garfield

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

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

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Unknown