Motivational Quotes

Enemies

One enemy is too much.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Eddie Cantor

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Channing, William Ellery

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Sally Kempton

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Mark Twain

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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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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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

22.

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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A person is his own worst enemy.

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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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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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.

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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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

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

Voltaire

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

Proverb

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

Moore, Frankfort

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

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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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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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

Euripides

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

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

Colbert, Claudette