Motivational Quotes

Enemies

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

- Oscar Wilde

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

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Mark Twain

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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

Moore, Frankfort

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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

Spike Milligan

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

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Euripides

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

Eddie Cantor

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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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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

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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

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The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

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

Sally Kempton

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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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

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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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

Proverb, Chinese