Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Conrad, Joseph

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Jones, Ernest

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Euripides

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

Blake, William

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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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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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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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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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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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

Sally Kempton

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Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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

Moore, Frankfort

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Antisthenes

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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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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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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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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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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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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Antisthenes

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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

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

Mark Twain

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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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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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The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

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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

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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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

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

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Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline