Motivational Quotes

Enemies

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

- Antisthenes

Best Quotes about Enemies

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Colbert, Claudette

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Antisthenes

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

Mark Twain

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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.

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Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing.

Proverb

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

Euripides

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

21.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Jewish Proverb

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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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There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy.

Moore, Frankfort

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Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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

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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Voltaire

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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

32.

A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Gracian, Baltasar

33.

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

Sally Kempton

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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

Eddie Cantor

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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

Blake, William

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

Jones, Ernest

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

40.

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

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

Spike Milligan

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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

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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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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

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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