Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Carlyle, Thomas

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

10.

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

Spike Milligan

11.

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

Chambers, Oswald

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Antisthenes

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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Blake, William

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

Sally Kempton

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jones, Ernest

28.

A person is his own worst enemy.

29.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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

Eddie Cantor

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

King, Stephen

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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.

33.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

34.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

35.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

36.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

39.

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

Mark Twain

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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

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

Voltaire

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

Eric Hoffer

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We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Franklin, Benjamin