Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

2.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

3.

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.

4.

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

Proverb, Chinese

5.

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

Eric Hoffer

6.

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

Colbert, Claudette

7.

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

Voltaire

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

12.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

13.

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

Simpson, N. F.

14.

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

15.

A person is his own worst enemy.

16.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

17.

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

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

20.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

21.

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

Eddie Cantor

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

26.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

28.

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

Chambers, Oswald

29.

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

King, Stephen

30.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

31.

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

32.

It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.

Dane, Frank

33.

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

34.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

35.

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

Bible

36.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

37.

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

Conrad, Joseph

38.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

39.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

40.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Spike Milligan

44.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

45.

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

Morley, Christopher

46.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

48.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

49.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

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