Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Enemies

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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

Sally Kempton

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Proverb

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

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Blake, William

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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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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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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

15.

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

16.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

Andre Maurois

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Simpson, N. F.

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

Euripides

23.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

25.

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

Spike Milligan

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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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.

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

Colbert, Claudette

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

Dane, Frank

30.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

31.

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

King, Stephen

32.

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

Eddie Cantor

33.

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

Jones, Ernest

34.

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

Morley, Christopher

35.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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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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False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

39.

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

Lee, Bruce

40.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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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.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

Antisthenes

43.

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

Jewish Proverb

44.

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

45.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

46.

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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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

48.

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

Moore, Frankfort

49.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.