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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

2.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

3.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

4.

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

Antisthenes

5.

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

6.

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

Voltaire

7.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

8.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

9.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Conrad, Joseph

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

14.

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

Sally Kempton

15.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

16.

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

Andre Maurois

17.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Morley, Christopher

20.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

21.

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

22.

A person is his own worst enemy.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Jewish Proverb

26.

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

Spike Milligan

27.

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

Jones, Ernest

28.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

31.

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

32.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

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

Euripides

34.

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

35.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

38.

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

Eddie Cantor

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

Horton, Doug

41.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

42.

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

Proverb

43.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

44.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

45.

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

Moore, Frankfort

46.

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

Antisthenes

47.

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

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

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.