Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

2.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

3.

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

Antisthenes

4.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

5.

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

Proverb

6.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

7.

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.

8.

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

Sally Kempton

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

13.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

14.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

15.

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.

16.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

17.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

18.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Antisthenes

22.

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

Mark Twain

23.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

26.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

27.

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

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

30.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

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

Channing, William Ellery

32.

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

Blake, William

33.

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

Spike Milligan

34.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

35.

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

36.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

37.

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

Dane, Frank

38.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

39.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

40.

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

Chambers, Oswald

41.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

42.

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

Simpson, N. F.

43.

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

Eric Hoffer

44.

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

45.

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

Colbert, Claudette

46.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

47.

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

48.

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

Morley, Christopher