Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Conrad, Joseph

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

2.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

3.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

4.

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

5.

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

Colbert, Claudette

6.

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

Antisthenes

7.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

8.

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

Channing, William Ellery

9.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

11.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

12.

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

Blake, William

13.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

14.

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

15.

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

Mark Twain

16.

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

Eddie Cantor

17.

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

Sally Kempton

18.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Euripides

21.

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

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Antisthenes

24.

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

25.

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

Simpson, N. F.

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

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

Horton, Doug

29.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Jones, Ernest

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

35.

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

Lee, Bruce

36.

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.

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

39.

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

Dane, Frank

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

42.

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

43.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

44.

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

Morley, Christopher

45.

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

Eric Hoffer

46.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.