Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Spike Milligan

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Dane, Frank

4.

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

Jones, Ernest

5.

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

Simpson, N. F.

6.

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

7.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

8.

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

Antisthenes

9.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

10.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

11.

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

Channing, William Ellery

12.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

13.

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

14.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb

17.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

18.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

19.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

20.

A person is his own worst enemy.

21.

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

Colbert, Claudette

22.

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

King, Stephen

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Spike Milligan

26.

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

Chambers, Oswald

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

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

Antisthenes

29.

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

30.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

31.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

33.

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

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

37.

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

Blake, William

38.

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

Morley, Christopher

39.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

40.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

Euripides

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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

Eddie Cantor

45.

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

46.

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

Bible

47.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

48.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

49.

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