Enemies Quotes
Most popular enemies quotes
Do not fear when your enemies criticize you. Beware when they applaud you.
Love your enemies for they tell you your faults.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Incidentally, it helps to have enemies. While love is a beautiful emotion, far more empires have been built, books written, wrongs righted, fights won, and ambitions realized out of vengeful desire to prove some critic wrong, or existential dread of some perceived enemy, than all the love in the world. Love is grand, but hate and fear last longer.
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In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing [ your ] self.
Discover the element of good in your enemy. And as you seek to hate him, find the center of goodness and place your attention there and you will take a new attitude.
Great men gain doubly when they make foes their friends.
A friend is a man who has the same enemies you have.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Forget your opponents; always play against par.
All our foes are mortal.
The space in a needle's eye is sufficient for two friends, but the whole world is scarcely big enough to hold two enemies.
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
Man's chief enemy and danger is his own unruly nature and the dark forces pent up within him.
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.
He that is not with me is against me.
When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Even a paranoid can have enemies.
I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
As the sutra says, a parasite in the lion's bowels will devour the lion. A man of great fortune cannot be ruined by his enemies but only by those close to him.
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.
We have met the enemy and he is us.
Who can refute a sneer?
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
Do de other feller, befo' he do you.
I like to have a real enemy to fight. It gives me something I can get my teeth into.
Enemies to me are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.
An enemy slaughters, a friend distributes.
A powerful friend becomes a powerful enemy.
An intelligent enemy is better than an ignorant friend.
When the cat dies, the mice rejoice.
A friend cannot be known in prosperity: and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity.
I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
In all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Enemies' promises were made to be broken.
What is an imaginary friend? Are there also imaginary enemies?
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.
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free of rust in the movable parts of the mind.
Praises from an enemy imply real merit.
If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.
The most dangerous enemy in the world is the one you do not recognize.
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs to life under a sting even better than under a caress.
Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
Enemies are so stimulating.
Never let yourself hate any person. It is the most devastating weapon of one's enemies.
It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
One must know one's enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.
Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.
It is said we learn truth from our enemies.
The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles mine.
I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.
Lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.
People wish their enemies dead—but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!
Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
If your enemy turns to flee, give him a silver bridge.
There is no little enemy.
Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.
Who despises an insignificant enemy resembles him who is careless about fire.
I'm lonesome. They are all dying. I have hardly a warm personal enemy left.
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
Kids only pick fights with kids of their age and size. We only make enemies that we're capable of taking on. Goes to show how fictional and chosen our "enemies" are.
Never declare anyone your opponent – lots of times the people we think are our enemies, are not, and it's just a one way street. Just assume you don't have enemies.
Always forgive your enemies—nothing annoys them so much.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Make sure your enemies keep complaining about you — ideally bringing a different thing every time they voice a complaint.
Resist trying to impress your enemies.
To avoid slackening and receding as you age, you must keep making new intelligent enemies, assuming you are lucky enough to find them.
Old enemies and new friends can't harm you; new enemies and old friends can.
To insult your foes, don't try to win arguments.
