Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Best Quotes about Enemies

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Sally Kempton

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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

Andre Maurois

10.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

11.

A person is his own worst enemy.

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

19.

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

Eric Hoffer

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

23.

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

Mark Twain

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

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

29.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

30.

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

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

33.

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

Blake, William

34.

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

Dane, Frank

35.

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

Antisthenes

36.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

37.

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

38.

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

Conrad, Joseph

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Horton, Doug

44.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Lee, Bruce

45.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.