Motivational Quotes

Enemies

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Enemies

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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

Colbert, Claudette

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Euripides

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

Antisthenes

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

Horton, Doug

10.

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

Antisthenes

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jewish Proverb

18.

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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Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

20.

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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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bible

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

28.

A person is his own worst enemy.

29.

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

Sally Kempton

30.

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

Jones, Ernest

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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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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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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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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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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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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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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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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults