Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Jewish Proverb

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.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

10.

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

11.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

12.

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

Spike Milligan

13.

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.

Jones, Ernest

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

17.

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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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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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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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

21.

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

Euripides

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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 prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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

Antisthenes

27.

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

Chambers, Oswald

28.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

29.

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

30.

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

Dane, Frank

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

35.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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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

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

Mark Twain

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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

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Bear patiently with a rival.