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

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

Morley, Christopher

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Antisthenes

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

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

Sally Kempton

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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

Simpson, N. F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Channing, William Ellery

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We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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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.

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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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

Moore, Frankfort

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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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The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

23.

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

Euripides

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

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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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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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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

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Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Spike Milligan

31.

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

Bible

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

34.

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.

35.

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

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

Eddie Cantor

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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A person is his own worst enemy.

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False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish