Motivational Quotes

Enemies

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

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

Mark Twain

2.

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

3.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

4.

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

Voltaire

5.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Blake, William

9.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

10.

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

11.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

12.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

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

Chambers, Oswald

14.

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

Morley, Christopher

15.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

A person is his own worst enemy.

18.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Proverb

21.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

22.

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.

23.

He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

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

26.

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

Horton, Doug

27.

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

Colbert, Claudette

28.

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

Jones, Ernest

29.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

30.

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

31.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

32.

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

33.

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

Andre Maurois

34.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

38.

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

Lee, Bruce

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

Channing, William Ellery

41.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

43.

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

Dane, Frank

44.

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

Euripides

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

47.

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

48.

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

Sally Kempton

49.

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

50.

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

Moore, Frankfort