Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- King, Stephen

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Antisthenes

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

Moore, Frankfort

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Mark Twain

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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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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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

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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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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

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

Channing, William Ellery

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

21.

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

Jones, Ernest

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A person is his own worst enemy.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Sally Kempton

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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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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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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

36.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.