Motivational Quotes

Enemies

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

- Petrarch, Francesco

Best Quotes about Enemies

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Blake, William

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

Andre Maurois

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

Colbert, Claudette

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Antisthenes

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

Sally Kempton

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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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

Voltaire

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Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Morley, Christopher

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False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Euripides

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

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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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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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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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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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Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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A person is his own worst enemy.

45.

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

Mark Twain

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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

48.

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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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

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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