Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Ford, Gerald R.

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Euripides

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

Franklin, Benjamin

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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

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

Blake, William

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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

Jones, Ernest

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Eric Hoffer

13.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Simpson, N. F.

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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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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

18.

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

Proverb

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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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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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Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Eddie Cantor

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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

Mark Twain

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

Aesop

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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A person is his own worst enemy.

39.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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

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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Antisthenes

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