Enemy Quotes

• Never wound a snake; kill it.

  Harriet Tubman

  Snakes, Political, African American

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  You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Prosperity

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• If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Life, Friendship

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

  Antisthenes

  Business, Powerful, Mistake

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (§ 12)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.

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• Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Life, Buddhist

  Gautama Buddha (2016). “Zen Dogs”, p.126, Mango Media Inc.

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• The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Best Friend, Clever

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• Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

  Aesop

  Broken, Promise, Made

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.47, Pelekanos Books

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• The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

  Oscar Wilde

  Faces

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• There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

  Antisthenes

  Love, Friendship, Dream

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• Enemies are so stimulating.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway

  Mother Teresa

  Successful, Winning, Be Kind

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• The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Poor, He Man

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• It is more important to outhink your enemy, than to outfight him

  Sun Tzu

  Important

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• If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

  Nelson Mandela

  Friendship, Inspiring, Leadership

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Opportunity, War Strategy

  Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.4, Booklassic

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• Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

  Aristophanes

  Friendship, Wall, War

  "Birds". Book by Aristophanes, 414 BCE.

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• Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Atheist

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• If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

  Paul Newman

  Inspirational, Jealousy, Character

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• There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist

  Boyd Rice

  Thinking, Worst Enemy, People

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• A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Peace, War

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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.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Giving, Grace, Mind

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Roger Robinson (2004). “Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings”, p.113, Univ. of Queensland Press

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• When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

  Dale Carnegie

  Hate, Sleep, Blood

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

  Francis of Assisi

  No Regrets, Doe, Betrayed

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