Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

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.

2.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

3.

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

Colbert, Claudette

4.

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

5.

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

Conrad, Joseph

6.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

7.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Dane, Frank

13.

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

Antisthenes

14.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

15.

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.

16.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

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

Blake, William

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Eric Hoffer

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Sally Kempton

23.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

24.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

25.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

26.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Antisthenes

29.

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

Bible

30.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

31.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

32.

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

Spike Milligan

33.

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

34.

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

Jewish Proverb

35.

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

36.

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

Horton, Doug

37.

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

Morley, Christopher

38.

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

Moore, Frankfort

39.

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

40.

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

Euripides

41.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Andre Maurois

45.

A person is his own worst enemy.

46.

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

47.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

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

Channing, William Ellery

49.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

50.

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