Enemies Quotes

My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.

Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

The most certain way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you esteem him such.

It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses.

The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. [...] For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does.

Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, any by my friends I am abused; so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes.

Go my friendbestow your loveeven on your enemiesif you touch their heartswhat do you think will happen.

The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not; In a single enemy thou hast more than enough.

Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.

Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden.

For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

There is no little enemy

My enemies make appointments at my tomb.

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.

We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.

Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend,but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.

Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?

Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.

Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

Infinite altruism is the basis of peace and happiness. If you want altruism, you must control hate and you must practice patience. The main teachers of patience are our enemies.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.

Will my enimies flee when they see me? Belive me, even thugz gotta learn to take it easy!

So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

Our enemies are our greatest teachers.

Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.

Better to have an open enemy, than hidden friends.

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes it is love that will save our world and civilization; love even for our enemies.