Motivational Quotes

Enemies

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Enemies

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Antisthenes

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

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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.

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

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

Antisthenes

11.

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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

Euripides

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

Spike Milligan

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

Proverb

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

Jones, Ernest

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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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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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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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A person is his own worst enemy.

29.

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

Aesop

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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 not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.

Dane, Frank

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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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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Eddie Cantor

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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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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Voltaire

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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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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Morley, Christopher

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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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