Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Antisthenes

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

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Chambers, Oswald

10.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

11.

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

Morley, Christopher

12.

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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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

14.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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.

16.

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

17.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

18.

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

19.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

20.

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

21.

A person is his own worst enemy.

22.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

23.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

26.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

28.

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

Andre Maurois

29.

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

Voltaire

30.

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

Eric Hoffer

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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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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

34.

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

35.

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

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

Jones, Ernest

37.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

38.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

39.

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

Simpson, N. F.

40.

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

Jewish Proverb

42.

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

Blake, William

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

46.

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

Colbert, Claudette

47.

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.

48.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

49.

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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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte