These enemy quotes will inspire you. Enemy, a person who hates or opposes another person and tries to harm that person.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging enemy quotes, enemy sayings, and enemy proverbs.
Best Enemy Quotes
- “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “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 , Enemy quotes smile & kind
- “The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.” ~ Sun Tzu
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“Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.” ~ Antisthenes
- “It is more important to outthink your enemy than to outfight him” ~ Sun Tzu
- “After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.” ~ David Ben-Gurion
- “The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
- “The enemy wants to steal our peace and keep us stirred up, anxious, fearful, upset, and always in a stance of waiting for something terrible to happen at any minute.” ~ Stormie Omartian
- “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “Never wound a snake; kill it.” ~ Harriet Tubman
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“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Enemies are an indication of character.” ~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
- “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
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“Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.” ~ Antisthenes
- “Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.” ~ Mario Puzo
- “If you don’t have enemies, you don’t have character.” ~ Paul Newman
- “And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.” ~ Sun Tzu
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“The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.” ~ Aesop
- “I bring out the worst in my enemies and that’s how I get them to defeat themselves.” ~ Roy Cohn
- “Money can’t buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.” ~ Spike Milligan
- “You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.” ~ Eric Hoffer
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“What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy.” ~ Sun Tzu
- “For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.” ~ Sun Tzu
- “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 , Enemy quotes haters
- “The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me” ~ Oscar Wilde
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“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “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
- “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
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“Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
- “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” ~ Nelson Mandela
- “An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.” ~ Criss Jami
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“Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.” ~ Sun Tzu
- “Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
- “Anyway, just because you’re sworn enemies doesn’t mean you can’t be friends, does it?” ~ Terry Pratchett
- “Time will be your friend or your enemy; it will promote you or expose you.” ~ Jeff Olson
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“Man is his own worst enemy.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.” ~ Euripides
- “In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.” ~ Nhat Hanh
- “Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.” ~ Mary Caroline Richards
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“A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.” ~ Friedrich Schiller
- “The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “I don’t have a warm personal enemy left. They’ve all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.” ~ Clare Boothe Luce
- “I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.” ~ Walt Whitman
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“I should see an enemy of my country in anyone who would change by force that which has been established by law.” ~ Louis Bonaparte
- “The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.” ~ Isabelle Eberhardt
- “He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” ~ Thomas Paine
- “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
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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
- “If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” ~ Desmond Tutu
- “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” ~ Sun Tzu
- “You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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“The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.” ~ Christopher Morley
- “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” ~ Ian Fleming
- “Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they hold dear. With a weapon in their hands. Cowards choose to do so on their bellies. Unarmed.” ~ David Gell
- “A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.” ~ Ken Keyes Jr.
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“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “When the enemy is at ease, be able to weary him; when well fed, to starve him; when at rest, to make him move. Appear at places to which he must hasten; move swiftly where he does not expect you.” ~ Sun Tzu
- “Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.” ~ Andre Maurois
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“You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.” ~ Joseph Heller
- “Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend” ~ Warren G. Harding
