Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Chambers, Oswald

Best Quotes about Enemies

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.

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

Sally Kempton

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

King, Stephen

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

Jones, Ernest

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

10.

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

11.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

12.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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

Eric Hoffer

14.

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

Eddie Cantor

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

Moore, Frankfort

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

Proverb

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

18.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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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

22.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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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.

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A person is his own worst enemy.

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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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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Euripides

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

Simpson, N. F.

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

Jewish Proverb

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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

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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Antisthenes

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

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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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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

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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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We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid