Motivational Quotes

Enemies

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

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

Morley, Christopher

2.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

3.

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

Lee, Bruce

4.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

5.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

6.

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

7.

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

Proverb, Chinese

8.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

13.

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

Blake, William

14.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

15.

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

Antisthenes

16.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

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

Horton, Doug

20.

A person is his own worst enemy.

21.

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

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

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

Andre Maurois

25.

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

Sally Kempton

26.

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

Mark Twain

27.

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

28.

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.

Jewish Proverb

29.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

32.

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

Dane, Frank

33.

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

34.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

35.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

36.

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

Eddie Cantor

37.

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.

38.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Euripides

40.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

41.

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

Jones, Ernest

42.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

43.

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

Channing, William Ellery

44.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

45.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

46.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

49.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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