Enemies Quotes

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

~ Homer

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

~ Orson Scott Card

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

~ Aesop

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.

~ Tim Fargo

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

~ Gautama Buddha

Friends never turn as enemies. If they did, they were never your friends at all.

~ Hark Herald Sarmiento

These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason.

~ Margaret Mitchell

Fire False Friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you've planted! The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

To identity friend or foe is often impossible, unless someone commits a hostile act.

~ General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf

a good friendship is beneficial to both, a bought friend is a free enemy that no one can afford.

~ Antwine Huffman

If every mortal looks at others as their friends, not as their enemies, the world would be a much better place, wouldn't it?

~ Morgan Rhodes

Better associations. If you associate yourself with a change maker,Your life will by all means become better.You will wink at challenges and begin to think.In times of frustrations, you will not sink.If you miss the way to a great destination,Just look for those going to that direction.Mount the shoulders of a giant believerAnd you will become a great achiever.People around you determine your speed.They will influence the growth of your seed.People you are around will decide your strengthAnd also the figure of your success’ lengthI trust you want to become a better you.It matters, what your associates plan to do.It depends, where your companions want to go.It relies on what your friends believe and know.Quit friendships that build you nothingChoose friends who bring out of you somethingOne iron sharpens another ironGo along with great people and ride on.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind.

~ Criss Jami

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

~ Ellis Peters

Enemies are people who's story you haven't heard, or who's face you haven't seen.

~ Irene Butter

The enemies of your enemies are not always your friends, but they can still be useful.

~ James D. Sass

Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

~ Sun Tzu

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

~ Sun Tzu

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

~ Sun Tzu

For should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

~ Sun Tzu

If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve.

~ Sun Tzu

Seeing the enemy as human. A general's ultimate nightmare.

~ Sabaa Tahir

This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it would make the world worse. This was true of that new war, and it has been true of every new war since...I knew too that this new war was not even new but was only the old one come again. And what caused it? It was caused, I thought, by people failing to love one another, failing to love their enemies.

~ Wendell Berry

As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the confrontation with the enemies of our civilization became more acute, when he sent off various applications to enlist in the armed forces. I didn't want to be involved in this decision either way, especially since I was being regularly taunted for not having 'sent' any of my children to fight in the wars of resistance that I supported. (As if I could 'send' anybody, let alone a grown-up and tough and smart young man: what moral imbeciles the 'anti-war' people have become.)

~ Christopher Hitchens

Peace with non-fundamentalists terrifies the fundamentalist because to them, being Christian doesn't mean just being 'good' - it means being 'better' than others. Being better that others means having to see them as enemies - and making war on them. The fundamentalist views not being allowed to make war on their enemies as oppression of their faith, or defeat.

~ Christina Engela

If you aren't destroying your enemies, it's because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of who your enemies are. You have been brainwashed into believing you are your own enemy, and you are set against yourself. The enemy is laughing at you as you tear yourself to pieces. That is the most effective warfare an enemy can launch on his foes: confounding them.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Mercy is weakness. Offer it to your enemies and you might as well fall upon your own sword.

~ Sabaa Tahir

We grew up on the same street,You and me.We went to the same schools,Rode the same bus,Had the same friends,And even shared spaghettiWith each other's families.And though our roots belong toThe same tree,Our branches have grownIn different directions.Our tree,Now resembles a thousandOther treesIn a sea of a trillionOther treesWith parallel destiniesAnd similar dreams.You cannot envy the branchThat grows biggerFrom the same seed,And you cannotBlame it on the sun's direction.But you still compare us,As if we're still those twoKids at the parkSlurping down slushies andEating ice cream.Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)

~ Suzy Kassem

Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)

~ Nelson Mandela

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

~ Walter Kirn

If you lay with a scorpion, don't be surprised when it finally stings you.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Be like seeds; do not see dirt thrown at you as your enemy, but as ground to grow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

~ Oscar Wilde

Beauty... Is what you are after a lifetime of struggle in the face of hostility, surviving, and standing scarred and unafraid, triumphant before your enemies.

~ Christina Engela

It's not about what my enemies can do to my body,it's more about what they can't do to my soul.Protected in the Arms of God

~ John C Park Iii

The quickest way a person can defame your character is by taking something you said out of context. But Fear Not. Everyone that was ever Anyone always had their words taken out of context. If you can't handle having your words twisted up, then leadership is not for you. Leadership is reserved for the ‪#‎BRAVE‬.

~ Tiffany Winfree

He who has conquered his internal enemies, to such an Arihant, I bow down to them. Learn to recognize the inner enemies. Anger, pride, deceit and greed are the inner enemies.

~ Dada Bhagwan