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

1.

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

Lee, Bruce

2.

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

3.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

4.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

5.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

6.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

7.

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

Spike Milligan

8.

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

Jones, Ernest

9.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

10.

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

Moore, Frankfort

11.

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

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Eric Hoffer

14.

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

Channing, William Ellery

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Sally Kempton

18.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

19.

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

Voltaire

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb

22.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

23.

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

Colbert, Claudette

24.

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

25.

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

Morley, Christopher

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

Eddie Cantor

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

A person is his own worst enemy.

30.

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

Andre Maurois

31.

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.

32.

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

Simpson, N. F.

33.

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

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

36.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

37.

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

38.

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

Horton, Doug

39.

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

Chambers, Oswald

40.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

41.

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