Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Moore, Frankfort

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

2.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

3.

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

4.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

5.

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

Jones, Ernest

6.

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

King, Stephen

7.

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

Moore, Frankfort

8.

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

9.

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

Eddie Cantor

10.

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.

11.

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

Chambers, Oswald

12.

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

Antisthenes

13.

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

14.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

15.

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

16.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

19.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

20.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

30.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

31.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

32.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

33.

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

34.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

37.

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

Lee, Bruce

38.

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

Andre Maurois

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Colbert, Claudette

41.

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

42.

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

Dane, Frank

43.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

44.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

45.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

46.

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

Jewish Proverb

47.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

A person is his own worst enemy.

49.

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

Sally Kempton

50.

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

Blake, William

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