Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Sally Kempton

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

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

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Proverb, Chinese

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.

Jewish Proverb

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

Bible

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

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

Antisthenes

10.

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

Morley, Christopher

11.

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

Spike Milligan

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

14.

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

Simpson, N. F.

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

A person is his own worst enemy.

17.

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

Euripides

18.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

19.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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

Sally Kempton

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

Moore, Frankfort

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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

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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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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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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.

28.

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

Mark Twain

30.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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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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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

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

Eddie Cantor

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

Colbert, Claudette

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

Antisthenes

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Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Eric Hoffer

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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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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

40.

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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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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

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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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

45.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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

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

King, Stephen