Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

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

Morley, Christopher

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.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

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

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

Blake, William

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Eddie Cantor

13.

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

Antisthenes

14.

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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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

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

Jones, Ernest

19.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

20.

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

Horton, Doug

21.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

22.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

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

25.

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

Mark Twain

26.

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

Euripides

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

Eric Hoffer

30.

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

Andre Maurois

31.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

32.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

33.

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

Proverb

34.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

35.

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

Conrad, Joseph

36.

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

Spike Milligan

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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

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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

42.

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

43.

A person is his own worst enemy.

44.

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

45.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.