Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

Best Quotes about Enemies

1.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

2.

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

Chambers, Oswald

3.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

4.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

5.

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

Jones, Ernest

6.

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

7.

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

Bible

8.

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

9.

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Proverb, Scottish

10.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

11.

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

Conrad, Joseph

12.

Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults

Antisthenes

13.

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

Horton, Doug

14.

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

Blake, William

15.

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

Antisthenes

16.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

17.

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

Morley, Christopher

18.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

19.

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

20.

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

Lee, Bruce

21.

A person is his own worst enemy.

22.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

23.

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

Andre Maurois

24.

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.

25.

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

Sally Kempton

26.

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

27.

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

Mark Twain

28.

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

29.

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

Euripides

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

King, Stephen

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Eric Hoffer

37.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

38.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

40.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

41.

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

42.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

43.

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

Simpson, N. F.

44.

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

45.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

46.

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

47.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

48.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

49.

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

Moore, Frankfort

50.

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