Motivational Quotes

Enemies

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Jones, Ernest

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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

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.

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

12.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

13.

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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Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Moore, Frankfort

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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

A person is his own worst enemy.

21.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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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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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 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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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

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Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

28.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Ford, Gerald R.

34.

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

Sally Kempton

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The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Eddie Cantor

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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

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

Blake, William

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.