Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

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Best Quotes about Enemies

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Simpson, N. F.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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

Colbert, Claudette

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

Blake, William

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

Mark Twain

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

Morley, Christopher

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The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

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

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

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

Sally Kempton

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A person is his own worst enemy.

20.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

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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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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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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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Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

34.

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

Jewish Proverb

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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

Proverb

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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

44.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Gracian, Baltasar

47.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

49.

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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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