Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

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

2.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

3.

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

Colbert, Claudette

4.

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

5.

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

6.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

7.

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

Andre Maurois

8.

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.

9.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

12.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

13.

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

Blake, William

14.

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

Simpson, N. F.

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

17.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

18.

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

19.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

26.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

27.

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

Antisthenes

28.

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

Eric Hoffer

29.

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

Eddie Cantor

30.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Conrad, Joseph

31.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

32.

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

Chambers, Oswald

33.

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

34.

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

Moore, Frankfort

35.

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.

36.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

37.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

38.

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

Jewish Proverb

39.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Voltaire

41.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

42.

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

43.

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

Antisthenes

44.

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

Morley, Christopher

45.

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

Channing, William Ellery

46.

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

Dane, Frank

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

50.

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