Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Jewish Proverb

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Dane, Frank

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

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

Jones, Ernest

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

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

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

Colbert, Claudette

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

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

10.

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

Chambers, Oswald

11.

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

Spike Milligan

12.

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

13.

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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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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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

17.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

18.

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

Voltaire

19.

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

Sally Kempton

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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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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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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

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

Antisthenes

25.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A person is his own worst enemy.

29.

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

Mark Twain

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Simpson, N. F.

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Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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

Euripides

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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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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

40.

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

Moore, Frankfort

41.

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

Proverb

42.

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Ford, Gerald R.

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

48.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Lee, Bruce