Motivational Quotes

Enemies

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

- John F. Kennedy

Best Quotes about Enemies

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Antisthenes

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

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Horton, Doug

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

Spike Milligan

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Sally Kempton

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

12.

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

Jones, Ernest

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

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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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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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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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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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A person is his own worst enemy.

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Antisthenes

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Simpson, N. F.

28.

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

Moore, Frankfort

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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

Euripides

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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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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

34.

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 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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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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

Colbert, Claudette

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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