Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Enemies

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.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Conrad, Joseph

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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

Jones, Ernest

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

10.

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Eddie Cantor

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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 have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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

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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Simpson, N. F.

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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Antisthenes

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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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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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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Sally Kempton

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

Moore, Frankfort

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

Proverb

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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

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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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A person is his own worst enemy.

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We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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

Proverb, Chinese

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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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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