Motivational Quotes

Enemies

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

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

Moore, Frankfort

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

Jones, Ernest

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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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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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Proverb

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

25.

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

Mark Twain

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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Euripides

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

Blake, William

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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Antisthenes

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

43.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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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.

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

Simpson, N. F.

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

King, Stephen

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

Sally Kempton

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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