Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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.

Best Quotes about Enemies

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

Sally Kempton

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

Andre Maurois

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

Colbert, Claudette

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

Simpson, N. F.

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

12.

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

Eddie Cantor

13.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

14.

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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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Euripides

17.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

18.

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

Proverb

19.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Jones, Ernest

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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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

25.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

26.

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

Spike Milligan

27.

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

Horton, Doug

28.

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

Mark Twain

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

Moore, Frankfort

30.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

32.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

33.

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

Antisthenes

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

Channing, William Ellery

35.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Voltaire

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

Blake, William

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