Motivational Quotes

Enemies

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

- Aristophanes

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

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

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

Proverb

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

Euripides

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

Antisthenes

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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

Antisthenes

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

Spike Milligan

11.

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

12.

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

Eric Hoffer

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

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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.

Andre Maurois

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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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Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Eddie Cantor

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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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

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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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

Moore, Frankfort

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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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

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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

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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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Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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

Jones, Ernest

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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

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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Proverb, Chinese

49.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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