Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Colbert, Claudette

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

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

Eric Hoffer

2.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

3.

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

Moore, Frankfort

4.

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

Channing, William Ellery

5.

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

6.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

7.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

8.

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

Morley, Christopher

9.

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

Jones, Ernest

10.

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

Conrad, Joseph

11.

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

12.

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

13.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

14.

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

15.

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

Antisthenes

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Antisthenes

19.

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

Mark Twain

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

22.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

24.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

Dane, Frank

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Lee, Bruce

32.

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

33.

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

Eddie Cantor

34.

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.

35.

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

Blake, William

36.

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

37.

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

Bible

38.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Proverb

40.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

41.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

44.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

45.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

46.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

47.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

48.

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

Voltaire

49.

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

50.

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