Motivational Quotes

Enemies

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

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

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Jewish Proverb

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

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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

Spike Milligan

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

Antisthenes

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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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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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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

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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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