Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

Best Quotes about Enemies

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Simpson, N. F.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Antisthenes

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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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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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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

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Sally Kempton

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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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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

27.

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

Colbert, Claudette

28.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

29.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

30.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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

Spike Milligan

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

Mark Twain

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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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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

42.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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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.

44.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Euripides

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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A person is his own worst enemy.