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

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

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

Antisthenes

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Chambers, Oswald

A person is his own worst enemy.

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

Blake, William

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Jewish Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Spike Milligan

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

14.

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

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Eddie Cantor

18.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

19.

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

20.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

25.

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

26.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

27.

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

Sally Kempton

28.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

29.

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

Proverb

30.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

32.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

33.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

34.

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

Colbert, Claudette

35.

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

36.

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

King, Stephen

37.

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

Simpson, N. F.

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

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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

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

42.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb, Chinese

45.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

46.

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

Voltaire

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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.

48.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

49.

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

Euripides

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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