Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Spike Milligan

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

King, Stephen

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

A person is his own worst enemy.

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

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

10.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

11.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

14.

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

Mark Twain

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

16.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.

Colbert, Claudette

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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 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

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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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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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sally Kempton

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We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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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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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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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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.

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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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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chambers, Oswald