Motivational Quotes

Enemies

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

- Aesop

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Proverb, Chinese

2.

Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise,'twas one of my most intimate enemies.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

3.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

4.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

5.

The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

6.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Eric Hoffer

7.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

8.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

9.

If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.

10.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Mark Twain

11.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

12.

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

Simpson, N. F.

13.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

14.

One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they keep us on our toes, a third reason is that we should make them our friends.

15.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

16.

I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.

Ford, Gerald R.

17.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

18.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.

Spike Milligan

21.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

Morley, Christopher

22.

Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

King, Stephen

23.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

Antisthenes

24.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

25.

It pays to know the enemy -- not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Thatcher, Margaret

26.

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.

Jones, Ernest

27.

The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

A person is his own worst enemy.

29.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Friedrich Nietzsche

30.

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

Aesop

31.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

33.

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

Eddie Cantor

34.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

35.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

36.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

Bette Davis

37.

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!

Harding, Warren Gamaliel

38.

Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.

Sumner, Gordon

39.

Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

Antisthenes

40.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

Chambers, Oswald

41.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

42.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

43.

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

Voltaire

45.

The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.

Adams, Douglas

46.

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

Miller, Henry

48.

There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.

Aesop

49.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you. [Matthew]

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