Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

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

Blake, William

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Antisthenes

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

10.

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

Proverb

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

Eric Hoffer

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A person is his own worst enemy.

13.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Sally Kempton

16.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Antisthenes

18.

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

Jones, Ernest

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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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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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Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Moore, Frankfort

27.

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

Spike Milligan

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We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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

Bible

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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

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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

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

Voltaire

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False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

40.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

42.

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

Simpson, N. F.

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Eddie Cantor

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Man has no greater enemy than himself.