Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

Colbert, Claudette

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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.

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

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

Bible

10.

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

Conrad, Joseph

11.

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

Eddie Cantor

12.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

13.

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

14.

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

Blake, William

15.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

17.

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

Antisthenes

18.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

19.

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

Sally Kempton

20.

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

Simpson, N. F.

21.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

22.

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

23.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

24.

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

Moore, Frankfort

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

Jones, Ernest

28.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

29.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

30.

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

Mark Twain

31.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

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

33.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

34.

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

35.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

36.

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

Chambers, Oswald

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

Jewish Proverb

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

41.

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

42.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

43.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

48.

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

Eric Hoffer

49.

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