Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

Best Quotes about Enemies

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Voltaire

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

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

10.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

11.

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

Dane, Frank

12.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

13.

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

14.

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

Simpson, N. F.

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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.

18.

A person is his own worst enemy.

19.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

20.

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.

21.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

22.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

23.

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

Sally Kempton

26.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

27.

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

Moore, Frankfort

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

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

Blake, William

33.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

34.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Chambers, Oswald

36.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

37.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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

Eric Hoffer

40.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

41.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

44.

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

Colbert, Claudette

45.

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

King, Stephen

46.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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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.