Motivational Quotes

Enemies

A person is his own worst enemy.

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Best Quotes about 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

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

Proverb

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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

Mark Twain

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

Andre Maurois

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

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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

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

Simpson, N. F.

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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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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Eddie Cantor

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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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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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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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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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A person is his own worst enemy.

34.

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

35.

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

Jones, Ernest

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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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

Sally Kempton

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

Spike Milligan

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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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.

46.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Antisthenes

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin