Motivational Quotes

Enemies

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

- Petrarch, Francesco

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

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

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.

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

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Sally Kempton

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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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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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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A person is his own worst enemy.

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

Jones, Ernest

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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

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

Dane, Frank

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

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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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The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

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

Antisthenes

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

Antisthenes

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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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

Euripides

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

Bible

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

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

Simpson, N. F.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Horton, Doug

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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

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

Lee, Bruce

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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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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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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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

Eddie Cantor

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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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

Proverb

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

Mark Twain

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

Moore, Frankfort