Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Enemies

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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

Voltaire

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Eric Hoffer

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

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

Jewish Proverb

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Antisthenes

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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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Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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

Antisthenes

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

Euripides

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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.

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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Simpson, N. F.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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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

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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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

Moore, Frankfort

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

Sally Kempton

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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

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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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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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A person is his own worst enemy.

45.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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

Channing, William Ellery