Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Spike Milligan

Best Quotes about Enemies

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mark Twain

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

12.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Antisthenes

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

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

Eddie Cantor

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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

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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

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

Proverb

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Observe 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

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

Dane, Frank

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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.

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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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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

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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

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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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It pays to know the enemy -- not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Jones, Ernest

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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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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

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

Sally Kempton

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

Spike Milligan

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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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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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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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A person is his own worst enemy.

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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Carlyle, Thomas