Motivational Quotes

Enemies

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Jones, Ernest

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

Moore, Frankfort

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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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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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Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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 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

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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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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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

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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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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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

Euripides

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

Colbert, Claudette

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

Mark Twain

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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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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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Antisthenes

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

Bible

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

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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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False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George