Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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

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

Spike Milligan

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

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

10.

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

11.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

12.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

13.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

14.

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

Chambers, Oswald

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

Channing, William Ellery

17.

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

King, Stephen

18.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

19.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Sally Kempton

22.

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

Andre Maurois

23.

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

Voltaire

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb

26.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

27.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

28.

A person is his own worst enemy.

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

32.

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

Horton, Doug

33.

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

34.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

35.

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

Jewish Proverb

37.

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

Dane, Frank

38.

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

39.

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

Antisthenes

40.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

41.

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

Antisthenes

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

45.

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.

46.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

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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Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry