Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

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.

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

Dane, Frank

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Simpson, N. F.

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

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

Eddie Cantor

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Antisthenes

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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Blake, William

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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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A person is his own worst enemy.

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The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

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

Jones, Ernest

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

Antisthenes

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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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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.

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

Euripides

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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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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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

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

Voltaire

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sally Kempton

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

Moore, Frankfort

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mark Twain

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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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