Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Dane, Frank

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Chambers, Oswald

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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

Voltaire

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

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

Simpson, N. F.

11.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

12.

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

Jones, Ernest

13.

A person is his own worst enemy.

14.

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

Eric Hoffer

15.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

16.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

17.

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

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

20.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

21.

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

Antisthenes

22.

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

Jewish Proverb

23.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

24.

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

Channing, William Ellery

25.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

27.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

28.

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

Eddie Cantor

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

Blake, William

31.

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

Spike Milligan

32.

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

Proverb

33.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

34.

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

Conrad, Joseph

35.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

37.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

42.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

43.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

44.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

45.

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

46.

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

Euripides

47.

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

Sally Kempton

48.

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

Horton, Doug

49.

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.

50.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid