Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

2.

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

3.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Morley, Christopher

7.

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

Antisthenes

8.

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

Sally Kempton

9.

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

10.

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

Jewish Proverb

11.

If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy... he'll know what to do with it.

Horton, Doug

12.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

13.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

14.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

15.

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

Andre Maurois

16.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

17.

A person is his own worst enemy.

18.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

19.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

20.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Chambers, Oswald

24.

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

Spike Milligan

25.

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

Channing, William Ellery

26.

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

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Simpson, N. F.

30.

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

Antisthenes

31.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

35.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

36.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

37.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

38.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

39.

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

40.

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

Dane, Frank

41.

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

Lee, Bruce

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

Eric Hoffer

49.

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