Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

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

Mark Twain

2.

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

Morley, Christopher

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

7.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

8.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

9.

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

Jones, Ernest

10.

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.

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Eddie Cantor

13.

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

14.

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

Euripides

15.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

16.

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

Horton, Doug

17.

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

Chambers, Oswald

18.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

19.

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

Eric Hoffer

20.

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

Antisthenes

21.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

22.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

23.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

King, Stephen

29.

A person is his own worst enemy.

30.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

31.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

32.

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

33.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

34.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

35.

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

Dane, Frank

36.

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

37.

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

Spike Milligan

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

40.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Lee, Bruce

44.

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

45.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

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

Andre Maurois

47.

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.

48.

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.