Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

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

Dane, Frank

2.

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

3.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

4.

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

5.

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

Andre Maurois

6.

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

Jones, Ernest

7.

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

Antisthenes

8.

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

Colbert, Claudette

9.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

10.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

Antisthenes

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

16.

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

17.

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

Sally Kempton

18.

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

Euripides

19.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

Channing, William Ellery

23.

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

24.

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

Jewish Proverb

25.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

26.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

27.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

28.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

29.

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

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.

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

Lee, Bruce

32.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

35.

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

Horton, Doug

36.

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

37.

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

38.

A person is his own worst enemy.

39.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

40.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Blake, William

44.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

45.

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