Motivational Quotes

Enemies

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Jones, Ernest

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

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Colbert, Claudette

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.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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A person is his own worst enemy.

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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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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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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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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Eddie Cantor

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Mark Twain

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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

Voltaire

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We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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

Blake, William

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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.

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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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

Euripides

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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

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

Simpson, N. F.

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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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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

King, Stephen

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Antisthenes

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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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Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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