Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Enemies

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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

Voltaire

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Euripides

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

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Eddie Cantor

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

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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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A person is his own worst enemy.

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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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

Sally Kempton

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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

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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

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False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Proverb, Chinese

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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Antisthenes

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

Bible

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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Simpson, N. F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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.