Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Enemies

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jones, Ernest

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.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Voltaire

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

10.

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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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

12.

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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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 person is his own worst enemy.

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

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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

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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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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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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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Sally Kempton

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

Blake, William

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

Antisthenes

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

Euripides

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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Eddie Cantor

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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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

King, Stephen

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Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

38.

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

Bible

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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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