Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Moore, Frankfort

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

Morley, Christopher

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Antisthenes

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

10.

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

Antisthenes

12.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

13.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

16.

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

Simpson, N. F.

17.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

18.

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

Eric Hoffer

19.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

20.

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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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Dane, Frank

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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

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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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

31.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Voltaire

33.

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

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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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

Eddie Cantor

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

42.

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

Mark Twain

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

Jones, Ernest

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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

46.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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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

48.

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.

49.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

King, Stephen