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

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

Bible

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

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

Antisthenes

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

Ford, Gerald R.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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

Mark Twain

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

King, Stephen

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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

Sally Kempton

10.

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

Conrad, Joseph

11.

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

12.

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

13.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

Jewish Proverb

16.

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.

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

19.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Lee, Bruce

24.

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

Moore, Frankfort

25.

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

Spike Milligan

26.

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

Jones, Ernest

27.

A person is his own worst enemy.

28.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

29.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

Voltaire

31.

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

32.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

33.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

34.

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

35.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

36.

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

37.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

Morley, Christopher

39.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

40.

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

Chambers, Oswald

41.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Andre Maurois

42.

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

43.

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

Blake, William

44.

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

45.

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

46.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Proverb