A Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

Theodore Roosevelt

Quote Topics

Ardent Bitter Career Case Character Course Decided Enemies Friends Makes Man Normally Strongly Very

Quote Author

Theodore Roosevelt
American - President
October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Diogenes

I think the Hulk has always appealed very strongly to much younger readers than Spider-Man, because Spider-Man is an adolescent character, and the Hulk is a very childlike character.

Kurt Busiek

A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance; and those who are possessed by it are not likely to care very much for people.

William E. Woodward

I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.

Steve Martin

I'm a very tough guy, and I fight hard, and I don't give up. And that makes me friends and that makes me enemies, and I know that.

Alan Dershowitz

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

Robert Burton

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

Plato

I could be your worst enemy. But i would rather have friends then enemies, and i go to great length to make that the case. There’s much more reward in having friends.

Jared Leto

If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.

Plato

For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.

Vita Sackville-West

An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde

I think what I reacted to so strongly when I first saw 'Pinocchio' was that I identified with the character so strongly. The movie takes you on a whole journey, a rollercoaster of emotions, and that sometimes means some very scary places. But in the end, it comes out okay.

Chris Buck

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

Heinrich Heine

Whosoever formeth an intimacy with the enemies of his friends, does so to injure the latter. O wise man! wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

Saadi

A Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors