Motivational Quotes

Enemies

Bear patiently with a rival.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Enemies

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Sally Kempton

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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.

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

Colbert, Claudette

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

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

Antisthenes

10.

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

Jewish Proverb

11.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A person is his own worst enemy.

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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.

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

Moore, Frankfort

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Simpson, N. F.

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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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The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

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

Proverb

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Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Mark Twain

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

King, Stephen

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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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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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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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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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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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

Spike Milligan

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Eddie Cantor

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

Friedrich Nietzsche