Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

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Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

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

Channing, William Ellery

2.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

3.

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

Jones, Ernest

4.

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

Proverb, Chinese

5.

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

Lee, Bruce

6.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

7.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

9.

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

Antisthenes

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

12.

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

Andre Maurois

13.

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

14.

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

Euripides

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Dane, Frank

17.

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

18.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

19.

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.

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

Morley, Christopher

22.

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

Voltaire

23.

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

Blake, William

24.

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

Eddie Cantor

25.

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

26.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

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

Colbert, Claudette

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

35.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

36.

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

Horton, Doug

37.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

38.

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

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

Sally Kempton

41.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

42.

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

43.

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

Moore, Frankfort

44.

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

Chambers, Oswald

45.

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

46.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

47.

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

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.

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

Antisthenes