Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Jones, Ernest

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Eric Hoffer

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

Eddie Cantor

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Antisthenes

10.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

11.

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

Channing, William Ellery

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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.

16.

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

Antisthenes

17.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

18.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

19.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

20.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

21.

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

Colbert, Claudette

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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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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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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

27.

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

Mark Twain

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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.

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Moore, Frankfort

35.

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

36.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

38.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

39.

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

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