Ardent Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness…

— Joseph Conrad

The proud and arrogant man is surrounded by enemies, but the kind hearted man attracts valuable friends.

— Ore Abayomi

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

— Charles de Gaulle

He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity

— Confucius

Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.

— Ivan Panin

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

— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

— Arthur Helps

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of…

— Leo Tolstoy

When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into…

— Baltasar Gracian

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…

— Diogenes