Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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.

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Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

Antisthenes

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

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

Blake, William

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

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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.

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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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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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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

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

Sally Kempton

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

Eddie Cantor

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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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

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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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False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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

Simpson, N. F.

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Proverb

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A person is his own worst enemy.

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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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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

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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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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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