Motivational Quotes

Enemies

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Enemies

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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

Colbert, Claudette

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

Spike Milligan

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

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

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

10.

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

11.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Andre Maurois

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The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

15.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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A person is his own worst enemy.

17.

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

Blake, William

18.

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

19.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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

Eddie Cantor

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

Moore, Frankfort

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

31.

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.

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

Mark Twain

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

Proverb

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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes