Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Eric Hoffer

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

2.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

3.

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

Blake, William

4.

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

Jewish Proverb

5.

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

Andre Maurois

6.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

7.

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

Voltaire

8.

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.

9.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

10.

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

Antisthenes

11.

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

12.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

16.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

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

18.

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

Chambers, Oswald

19.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

20.

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

21.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

22.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

Mark Twain

24.

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

Sally Kempton

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Euripides

27.

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

Simpson, N. F.

28.

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

Moore, Frankfort

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

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.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

35.

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

36.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

37.

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

Jones, Ernest

38.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

39.

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

40.

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

Antisthenes

41.

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

42.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

43.

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

Eddie Cantor

44.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

Eric Hoffer

48.

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.

49.

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

Dane, Frank

50.

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

Proverb