Motivational Quotes

Enemies

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

- Proverb, Scottish

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.

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

Sally Kempton

3.

Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

4.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

5.

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

Conrad, Joseph

6.

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

Jones, Ernest

7.

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

Proverb, Chinese

8.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

12.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

13.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

14.

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

Chambers, Oswald

15.

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

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Blake, William

18.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

19.

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

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

21.

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

Eddie Cantor

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

25.

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

Mark Twain

26.

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

Simpson, N. F.

27.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Voltaire

29.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

37.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

38.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

39.

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

Moore, Frankfort

40.

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

King, Stephen

41.

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

42.

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

Euripides

43.

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

44.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

45.

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

Jewish Proverb

46.

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

Andre Maurois

47.

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