Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

3.

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

Dane, Frank

4.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

5.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

6.

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

Proverb

7.

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

8.

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

Lee, Bruce

9.

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

Antisthenes

10.

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

Jones, Ernest

11.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

12.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

13.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

14.

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

Antisthenes

15.

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

16.

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

Blake, William

17.

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

Chambers, Oswald

18.

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

19.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

20.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

21.

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

Andre Maurois

22.

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

23.

If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy... he'll know what to do with it.

Horton, Doug

24.

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

25.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

26.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

30.

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

31.

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

Euripides

32.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

34.

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

35.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

36.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

37.

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

38.

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

Jewish Proverb

39.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

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

Eddie Cantor

41.

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