Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

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

2.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

3.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

4.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

5.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

6.

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

7.

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

Mark Twain

8.

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

9.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

10.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

12.

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

13.

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

Colbert, Claudette

14.

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

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

20.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

21.

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

Simpson, N. F.

22.

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

Jewish Proverb

23.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

24.

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

Lee, Bruce

25.

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

Euripides

26.

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

Blake, William

27.

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

28.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Dane, Frank

36.

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

Antisthenes

37.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

38.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

39.

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

40.

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

Andre Maurois

41.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

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

Bible

43.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

44.

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

45.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

46.

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

Channing, William Ellery

47.

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

48.

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

Moore, Frankfort

49.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Conrad, Joseph

50.

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

Proverb