Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

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Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

2.

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

Eric Hoffer

3.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

4.

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

Antisthenes

5.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

7.

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

Sally Kempton

8.

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

9.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

12.

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

Dane, Frank

13.

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

Horton, Doug

14.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

15.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

16.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

17.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

18.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

19.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

20.

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

21.

A person is his own worst enemy.

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

24.

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

25.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Moore, Frankfort

29.

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

Bible

30.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

King, Stephen

34.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

35.

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

Colbert, Claudette

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

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

38.

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

Spike Milligan

39.

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

40.

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

Eddie Cantor

41.

Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise,'twas one of my most intimate enemies.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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.

44.

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

Mark Twain

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

Morley, Christopher

47.

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

48.

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

49.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

50.

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

Euripides