Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Enemies

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.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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

Eddie Cantor

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

Ford, Gerald R.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Voltaire

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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

Morley, Christopher

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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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

King, Stephen

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

Eric Hoffer

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The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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A person is his own worst enemy.

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

Spike Milligan

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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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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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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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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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

Bible

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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

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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

Antisthenes

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

Antisthenes

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

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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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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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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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

Sally Kempton

48.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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Even a paranoid can have enemies.