Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

2.

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.

3.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

4.

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

Horton, Doug

5.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

6.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

7.

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

Chambers, Oswald

8.

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

Lee, Bruce

9.

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

Mark Twain

10.

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

Sally Kempton

11.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

17.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

18.

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

Antisthenes

19.

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

Andre Maurois

20.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

22.

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

Euripides

23.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

24.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

25.

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

26.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

King, Stephen

29.

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

Dane, Frank

30.

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

Simpson, N. F.

31.

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

Jewish Proverb

32.

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

Moore, Frankfort

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

35.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

36.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

37.

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

Antisthenes

38.

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

39.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Jones, Ernest