80 Enemies Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing enemy sayings.
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Short Enemies Sayings
“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” —Abraham Lincoln
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
“Love your enemies; for they shall tell you all your faults.” —Benjamin Franklin
“A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.” —Oscar Wilde
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” —Oscar Wilde
“I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.” —Benjamin Franklin
“Money can’t buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.” —Spike Milligan
“Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.” —Abraham Lincoln
“If you don’t have enemies, you don’t have character.” —Paul Newman
“Negativity is the enemy of creativity.” —David Lynch
“Enemies can’t break your spirit, only friends can.” —Arundhati Roy
“Seeing the enemy as human. A general’s ultimate nightmare.” —Sabaa Tahir
“Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.” —William Blake
“Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.” —Arthur Bloch
“False friends are worse than bitter enemies.” —Unknown
“Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.” —Mason Cooley
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” —John F. Kennedy
“I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.” —Stonewall Jackson
“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” —John F. Kennedy
“I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.” —Elie Wiesel
“Enemies promises were made to be broken.” —Aesop
“If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.” —Sun Tzu
“Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.” —Nikki Sixx
“A true man loves his enemies as much he loves his friends.” —Santosh Kalwar
“A wise general makes a point of foraging of the enemy.” —Sun Tzu
“We can learn even from our enemies.” —Ovid
“Speak well of your enemies… you made them.” —Unknown
“Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.” —Joel Osteen
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” —William Blake
“A friend is nothing but a known enemy.” —Kurt Cobain
“A man with no enemies is a man with no character.” —Paul Newman
“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” —African proverb
“A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.” —Aristotle
“There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.” —Euripides
“A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.” —Emile M. Cioran
Enemies Sayings
“I bring out the worst in my enemies and that’s how I get them to defeat themselves.” —Roy M. Cohn
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.” —G.K. Chesterton
“Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies.” —Benjamin Franklin
“If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” —Desmond Tutu
“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.” —William Blake
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” —Winston Churchill
“A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.” —Maya Angelou
“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.” —Baltasar Gracián
“We have no permanent friend. We have no permanent enemies. We just have permanent interests.” —Benjamin Disraeli
“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.” —Eric Hoffer
“The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.” —Unknown
“A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.” —Friedrich Schiller
“It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.” —Dalai Lama
“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
“A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.” —Robert Jordan
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.” —Charles Caleb Colton
“Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.” —François de La Rochefoucauld
“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” —Nelson Mandela
“The enemies of your enemies are not always your friends, but they can still be useful.” —James D. Sass
“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.” —Mark Twain
“Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.” —Vanna Bonta
“Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.” —Frank Sinatra
“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.” —Walt Whitman
“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.” —Socrates
“Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.” —Sun Tzu
“If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.” —Thomas Carlyle
“Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.” —Tim Fargo
“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero
“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
“He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy’s life.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“When we turn to one another for counsel, we reduce the number of our enemies.” —Kahlil Gibran
Top Ten Enemies Sayings
Here you will find top ten enemy sayings selected by our team
- “Money can’t buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.” —Spike Milligan
- “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” —Oscar Wilde
- “I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.” —Benjamin Franklin
- “It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.” —Dalai Lama
- “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” —John F. Kennedy
- “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” —Winston Churchill
- “A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.” —Maya Angelou
- “The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.” —G.K. Chesterton
- “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
