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

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

Bible

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

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Sally Kempton

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

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

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

Dane, Frank

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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

10.

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

Eddie Cantor

11.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

12.

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.

13.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

15.

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

Euripides

16.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

17.

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

Antisthenes

18.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

19.

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

Horton, Doug

20.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

21.

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

22.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

23.

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

Eric Hoffer

24.

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

Channing, William Ellery

25.

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

26.

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

Antisthenes

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

32.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

33.

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

Simpson, N. F.

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

Moore, Frankfort

36.

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

King, Stephen

37.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

38.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

39.

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

Morley, Christopher

40.

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

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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

Andre Maurois

45.

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

Jones, Ernest

46.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

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

Lee, Bruce

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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