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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
Enemies Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Enemies

1.
Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults
Antisthenes

2.
There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy.
Moore, Frankfort

3.
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

4.
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.

5.
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
Antisthenes

6.
Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
King, Stephen

7.
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

8.
A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
Dahlberg, Edward

9.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche

10.
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

11.
Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
Persian Proverb

12.
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Carlyle, Thomas

13.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

14.
Bear patiently with a rival.
Ovid

15.
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you. [Matthew]
Bible

16.
False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
Proverb, Scottish

17.
No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.
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

19.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Andre Maurois

20.
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

21.
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Publilius Syrus

22.
Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing.
Proverb

23.
Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.
There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
Euripides

25.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy

26.
Speak well of your enemies... you made them.

27.
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
Blake, William

28.
In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Voltaire

29.
It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.
Syrus, Publilius

30.
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

31.
Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
Franklin, Benjamin

32.
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

33.
Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
Antisthenes

34.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sally Kempton

35.
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.

36.
It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.
Dane, Frank

37.
I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.
Ford, Gerald R.

38.
I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
Franklin, Benjamin

39.
Even a paranoid can have enemies.
Kissinger, Henry

40.
Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
Jones, Ernest

41.
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

42.
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
Channing, William Ellery

43.
He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.
We can learn even from our enemies.
Ovid

45.
A person is his own worst enemy.

46.
The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
Kempis, Thomas

47.
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
Morley, Christopher

48.
We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
Chambers, Oswald

49.
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.
Proverb, Chinese

50.
We have meet the enemy; and he is us.
Kelly, Walt


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