Motivational Quotes

Enemies

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

- Antisthenes

Best Quotes about Enemies

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.

Jewish Proverb

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

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

Antisthenes

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

Bible

It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

10.

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

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

Jones, Ernest

12.

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

13.

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

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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.

Dane, Frank

16.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Conrad, Joseph

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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

20.

The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.

Channing, William Ellery

21.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

23.

There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

Euripides

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

Mark Twain

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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

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

27.

No man should ever display his bravery unless he is prepared for battle, nor bear the marks of defiance, until he has experienced the abilities of his enemy.

Hitopadesa

28.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Andre Maurois

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Eddie Cantor

32.

A person is his own worst enemy.

33.

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

Morley, Christopher

34.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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Speak well of your enemies... you made them.

36.

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

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

King, Stephen

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Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Lee, Bruce

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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.

41.

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

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

Simpson, N. F.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Saadi

45.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ford, Gerald R.

47.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.

Colbert, Claudette

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It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.