Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Simpson, N. F.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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

Proverb

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.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Bible

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

Chesterfield, Lord

12.

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

Eddie Cantor

13.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

14.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

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

Jones, Ernest

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

20.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

21.

A person is his own worst enemy.

22.

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

Voltaire

23.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

24.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

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 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

27.

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

Morley, Christopher

28.

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

Euripides

29.

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

Eric Hoffer

30.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

Channing, William Ellery

32.

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.

33.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

34.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

35.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

36.

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

Antisthenes

37.

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

38.

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Sally Kempton

40.

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

Colbert, Claudette

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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

43.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

44.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

45.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

46.

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

Mark Twain

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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

49.

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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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