Motivational Quotes

Enemies

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A person is his own worst enemy.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Antisthenes

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

10.

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

Lee, Bruce

11.

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

Bible

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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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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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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Eddie Cantor

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Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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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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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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

30.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Morley, Christopher

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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

33.

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

Mark Twain

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

Proverb

35.

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

Spike Milligan

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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

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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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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Eric Hoffer

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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Blake, William

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Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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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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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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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