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

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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

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

Antisthenes

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Spike Milligan

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

10.

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

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.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

14.

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

15.

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

Moore, Frankfort

16.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

17.

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

Morley, Christopher

18.

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

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Proverb

21.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Jewish Proverb

23.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

Blake, William

24.

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

Simpson, N. F.

25.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

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

Channing, William Ellery

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

30.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

31.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

32.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

33.

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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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.

35.

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

Eric Hoffer

36.

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

37.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

38.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

39.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

40.

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.