Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Moore, Frankfort

Best Quotes about Enemies

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Sally Kempton

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

Euripides

A person is his own worst enemy.

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

Jewish Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Jones, Ernest

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

11.

If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy... he'll know what to do with it.

Horton, Doug

12.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

13.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

18.

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

Mark Twain

19.

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

Morley, Christopher

20.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

21.

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

Spike Milligan

22.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

23.

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

Dane, Frank

24.

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

25.

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

Antisthenes

26.

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

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

29.

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

Blake, William

30.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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

32.

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

33.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

34.

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

35.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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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

37.

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

Simpson, N. F.

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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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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

40.

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

Andre Maurois

41.

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

Eddie Cantor

42.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

43.

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Moore, Frankfort

45.

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

Lee, Bruce

46.

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

Colbert, Claudette

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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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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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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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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