Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Ford, Gerald R.

Best Quotes about Enemies

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Colbert, Claudette

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

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

Sally Kempton

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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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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

12.

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

Andre Maurois

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

Bible

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

Antisthenes

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Dane, Frank

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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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The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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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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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

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Euripides

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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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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Simpson, N. F.

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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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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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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

King, Stephen

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Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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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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We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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

Proverb, Chinese