Motivational Quotes

Enemies

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

- Antisthenes

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

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

Dane, Frank

2.

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

3.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

4.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

5.

A person is his own worst enemy.

6.

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

Morley, Christopher

7.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

9.

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

10.

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

Eddie Cantor

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Lee, Bruce

13.

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

Chambers, Oswald

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

17.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

18.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

19.

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

20.

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

Colbert, Claudette

21.

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

Blake, William

22.

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

Sally Kempton

23.

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

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

26.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

27.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Mark Twain

35.

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

King, Stephen

36.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

37.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

Euripides

40.

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

Eric Hoffer

41.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

42.

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

43.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

44.

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

Bible

45.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

46.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

47.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

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

Spike Milligan

49.

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

50.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius