Motivational Quotes

Enemies

Bear patiently with a rival.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

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

2.

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

Eddie Cantor

3.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

4.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

5.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

6.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

7.

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

King, Stephen

8.

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

Horton, Doug

9.

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

Mark Twain

10.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

11.

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

Andre Maurois

12.

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

13.

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

Morley, Christopher

14.

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

Lee, Bruce

15.

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

Euripides

16.

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

17.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

18.

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

Antisthenes

19.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

20.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

21.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

22.

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

Voltaire

23.

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

Eric Hoffer

24.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

30.

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

Chambers, Oswald

31.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

32.

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

Moore, Frankfort

33.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

A person is his own worst enemy.

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

37.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

38.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

Channing, William Ellery

42.

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

43.

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

Simpson, N. F.

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

Antisthenes

47.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco