Motivational Quotes

Enemies

Bear patiently with a rival.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

2.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

3.

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

Euripides

4.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

5.

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

6.

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

Mark Twain

7.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

8.

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

Horton, Doug

9.

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

King, Stephen

10.

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

11.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Sally Kempton

15.

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

16.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

17.

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

18.

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

Jewish Proverb

19.

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

Voltaire

20.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

21.

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

Morley, Christopher

22.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

23.

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

24.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

25.

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

26.

A person is his own worst enemy.

27.

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

28.

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

Moore, Frankfort

29.

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

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

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

Lee, Bruce

32.

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

Eric Hoffer

33.

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

34.

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

Blake, William

35.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

37.

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

Simpson, N. F.

38.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

39.

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.

40.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

Channing, William Ellery

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Colbert, Claudette

47.

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.

48.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

49.

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

Spike Milligan

50.

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

Andre Maurois