Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Colbert, Claudette

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Proverb

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

Blake, William

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Mark Twain

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

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Moore, Frankfort

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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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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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

Jones, Ernest

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

21.

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

Bible

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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.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Antisthenes

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A person is his own worst enemy.

29.

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

31.

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

Sally Kempton

32.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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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

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

Euripides

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Eddie Cantor

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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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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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

Morley, Christopher

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Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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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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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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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Horton, Doug

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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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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