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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
Enemies Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Enemies

1.
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

2.
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.
Proverb, Chinese

3.
False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
Proverb, Scottish

4.
Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing.
Proverb

5.
Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
Antisthenes

6.
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

7.
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

8.
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

9.
It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.
Syrus, Publilius

10.
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

11.
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

12.
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
Petrarch, Francesco

13.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sally Kempton

14.
Bear patiently with a rival.
Ovid

15.
It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.
Dane, Frank

16.
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Publilius Syrus

17.
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Conrad, Joseph

18.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

19.
We can learn even from our enemies.
Ovid

20.
The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.
Lincoln, Abraham

21.
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

22.
He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.
Eddie Cantor

23.
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
Antisthenes

24.
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you. [Matthew]
Bible

25.
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

26.
A person is his own worst enemy.

27.
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
Morley, Christopher

28.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte

29.
Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.
Jewish Proverb

30.
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
Blake, William

31.
We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
Chambers, Oswald

32.
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

33.
Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
King, Stephen

34.
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
Lee, Bruce

35.
Even a paranoid can have enemies.
Kissinger, Henry

36.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche

37.
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

38.
No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.
In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Voltaire

40.
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan

41.
There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
Euripides

42.
Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
Franklin, Benjamin

43.
A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
Dahlberg, Edward

44.
Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
Persian Proverb

45.
Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
Jones, Ernest

46.
If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy... he'll know what to do with it.
Horton, Doug

47.
He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer

49.
Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.
Richards, Mary Caroline

50.
I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.
Ford, Gerald R.


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