Motivational Quotes

Enemies

We can learn even from our enemies.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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.

11.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

12.

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

Eddie Cantor

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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

14.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

15.

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

Andre Maurois

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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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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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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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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

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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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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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

King, Stephen

27.

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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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Antisthenes

30.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Antisthenes

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

Simpson, N. F.

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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

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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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We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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

Mark Twain

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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.