Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Jewish Proverb

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

2.

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

Conrad, Joseph

3.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

4.

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

5.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

6.

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

Spike Milligan

7.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

8.

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

Morley, Christopher

9.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Andre Maurois

11.

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

Antisthenes

12.

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

Chambers, Oswald

13.

A person is his own worst enemy.

14.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

17.

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

Channing, William Ellery

18.

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

Eric Hoffer

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

21.

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

22.

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

23.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

25.

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

Voltaire

26.

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

Sally Kempton

27.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

28.

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

29.

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

Colbert, Claudette

30.

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

31.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

32.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Dane, Frank

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

Lee, Bruce

39.

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

40.

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

King, Stephen

41.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

42.

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

43.

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.