Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Franklin, Benjamin

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Lee, Bruce

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

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

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

Andre Maurois

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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

Colbert, Claudette

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

Blake, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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

Eddie Cantor

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The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

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

Proverb

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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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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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Jones, Ernest

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

Horton, Doug

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Conrad, Joseph

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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Moore, Frankfort

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

Mark Twain

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

Antisthenes

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A person is his own worst enemy.