Motivational Quotes

Enemies

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

- Moore, Frankfort

Best Quotes about Enemies

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Horton, Doug

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

Antisthenes

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

Proverb

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

Lee, Bruce

10.

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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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

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

Eddie Cantor

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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

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The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Colbert, Claudette

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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jones, Ernest

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

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We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

27.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Kissinger, Henry

28.

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Antisthenes

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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

Moore, Frankfort

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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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

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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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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.

Persian Proverb

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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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Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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

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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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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

44.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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