Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- King, Stephen

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Sally Kempton

10.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

11.

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

Conrad, Joseph

12.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

14.

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.

15.

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

Lee, Bruce

16.

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

Horton, Doug

17.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

20.

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

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

Dane, Frank

23.

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

Simpson, N. F.

24.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

25.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

Colbert, Claudette

28.

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

Morley, Christopher

29.

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

30.

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

Andre Maurois

31.

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

Euripides

32.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

33.

A person is his own worst enemy.

34.

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

Blake, William

35.

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.

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

Moore, Frankfort

37.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

38.

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

Mark Twain

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.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

41.

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

Jones, Ernest

42.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

43.

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

Jewish Proverb

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

48.

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

49.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Voltaire