Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Moore, Frankfort

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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 difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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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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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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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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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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A person is his own worst enemy.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Jones, Ernest

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

Sally Kempton

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Blake, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Antisthenes

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

Moore, Frankfort

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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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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.