Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

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

2.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

3.

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

Blake, William

4.

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

Andre Maurois

5.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

6.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

10.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Lee, Bruce

12.

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

Spike Milligan

13.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Jones, Ernest

15.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

17.

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

Simpson, N. F.

18.

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

Dane, Frank

19.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

20.

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

Chambers, Oswald

21.

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

Conrad, Joseph

22.

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

23.

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

Sally Kempton

24.

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

25.

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

Horton, Doug

26.

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

Euripides

27.

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

Eric Hoffer

28.

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

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

39.

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

Jewish Proverb

40.

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

Colbert, Claudette

41.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

42.

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

Moore, Frankfort

43.

A person is his own worst enemy.

44.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

45.

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

Channing, William Ellery

46.

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

Morley, Christopher

47.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

48.

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

Proverb, Chinese

49.

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

50.

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