Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Antisthenes

Best Quotes about Enemies

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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A person is his own worst enemy.

13.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Jewish Proverb

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We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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

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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Sally Kempton

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

Proverb

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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Mark Twain

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

Morley, Christopher

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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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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

35.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Jones, Ernest

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

Blake, William

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

Colbert, Claudette

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

Voltaire

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

Antisthenes

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Gracian, Baltasar