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

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Antisthenes

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

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Antisthenes

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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

12.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

Bible

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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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

Simpson, N. F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Sally Kempton

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Mark Twain

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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

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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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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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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Spike Milligan

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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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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

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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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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

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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

36.

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

Colbert, Claudette

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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

40.

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

Blake, William

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

Conrad, Joseph

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Moore, Frankfort

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Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Eddie Cantor

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