Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

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

Horton, Doug

2.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

3.

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

4.

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

5.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

6.

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

Jones, Ernest

7.

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

8.

Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

King, Stephen

9.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

12.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

14.

A person is his own worst enemy.

15.

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

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

19.

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

Antisthenes

20.

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

Blake, William

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

25.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Chambers, Oswald

29.

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

30.

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

Jewish Proverb

31.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

33.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

34.

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

Conrad, Joseph

35.

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

36.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

37.

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

Eddie Cantor

38.

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

39.

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

Mark Twain

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Spike Milligan

44.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.