Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Voltaire

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

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

Sally Kempton

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

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

Simpson, N. F.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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

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

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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False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

12.

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

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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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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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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Jewish Proverb

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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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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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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

Blake, William

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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

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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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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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Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

30.

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

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

Ford, Gerald R.

32.

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

Antisthenes

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Eddie Cantor

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A person is his own worst enemy.

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Proverb

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

Spike Milligan

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.