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

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

Colbert, Claudette

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.

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

Moore, Frankfort

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Simpson, N. F.

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

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

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

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

10.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

11.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

12.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Mark Twain

14.

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

Conrad, Joseph

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

King, Stephen

18.

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

19.

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

Sally Kempton

20.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

21.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

22.

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

23.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

24.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

25.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

26.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Bible

29.

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

Euripides

30.

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

Andre Maurois

31.

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

Eric Hoffer

32.

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

Antisthenes

33.

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

34.

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

Horton, Doug

35.

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

36.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

37.

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.

38.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

39.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

40.

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

Spike Milligan

41.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

42.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Jones, Ernest

45.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

47.

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

Dane, Frank

49.

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

50.

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

Carlyle, Thomas