Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Enemies

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

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

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

Eddie Cantor

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dane, Frank

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Eric Hoffer

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

13.

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

14.

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

Chambers, Oswald

15.

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

16.

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

Antisthenes

17.

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

18.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

19.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

20.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

21.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

22.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

23.

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

Blake, William

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

Sally Kempton

26.

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

27.

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

Euripides

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

Moore, Frankfort

31.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

32.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

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

Jones, Ernest

34.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

35.

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

King, Stephen

36.

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

Channing, William Ellery

37.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

38.

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

39.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

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

Bible

41.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

42.

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

Antisthenes

43.

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.

44.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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.

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

Mark Twain

47.

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

Spike Milligan

48.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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.