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

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

Bible

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Colbert, Claudette

A person is his own worst enemy.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lee, Bruce

10.

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

Moore, Frankfort

11.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Mark Twain

15.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

16.

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

Chambers, Oswald

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

Eddie Cantor

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

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

Simpson, N. F.

25.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

27.

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

Spike Milligan

28.

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

29.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

30.

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

31.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

32.

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

Horton, Doug

33.

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

Dane, Frank

34.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

35.

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

36.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Channing, William Ellery

41.

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

Antisthenes

42.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

43.

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

46.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

47.

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

48.

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

Morley, Christopher

49.

In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

Voltaire

50.

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