Motivational Quotes

Enemies

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

- Dahlberg, Edward

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

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

Morley, Christopher

2.

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

Bible

3.

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

4.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

5.

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

Blake, William

6.

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

Euripides

7.

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

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

Chambers, Oswald

9.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

Voltaire

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

15.

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

Jones, Ernest

16.

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

Spike Milligan

17.

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

King, Stephen

18.

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

19.

It pays to know the enemy -- not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Thatcher, Margaret

20.

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

Dane, Frank

21.

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

Proverb

22.

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

Eddie Cantor

23.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

24.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

Antisthenes

27.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

28.

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

Sally Kempton

29.

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

Mark Twain

30.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

31.

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

Andre Maurois

32.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

33.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

35.

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

Simpson, N. F.

36.

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

Colbert, Claudette

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

41.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

42.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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.

45.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

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

Moore, Frankfort

47.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

48.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Eric Hoffer