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Quotes About Enemies

With gifts, you may gather your enemies about you. When giving nothing, even your own family will leave.
~ Sakya Pandita
Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.
~ John Steinbeck
Never fear your enemies, fear your actions.
~ George Meade
Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
~ Douglas MacArthur
Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.
~ Jim Rohn
Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil.
~ George W. Bush
Wish all your enemies a long life, so they can see you succeed in life.
~ Unknown
I'd rather be a happy person with a thousand enemies than a miserable person with no enemies.
~ Unknown
L.I.F.E L: Love I: Inspiration F: Friends E: Enemies
~ Unknown
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
~ Baltasar Gracian
In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
~ Voltaire
Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.
~ Unknown
Progress is a nice word, but change is it's motivator, and change has it's enemies.
~ Robert Kennedy
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies. But it takes a great deal more to stand up to your friends.
~ Jk Rowling
On the road to success; there's a curve called failure, a loop called confusion, speed bumps called friends & red lights called enemies.
~ Unknown
Reality is the cleverest of our enemies. It directs its attacks at those points in our heart where we were not expecting them, and where we had prepared no defense. Had Albertine been lying to her aunt then, when she said every day that she was going to the Buttes-Chaumont, or to me when she said that she had never been there?
~ Marcel Proust
The truth is the most cunning of enemies. It launches its attacks upon the points of our heart at which we were not expecting them, and have prepared no defence.
~ Marcel Proust
Because above all, we're patriots. We will willingly carry the fight to whoever may be the enemies of the United States of America. We're your front line, unafraid and ready to go in against al Qaeda, jihadists, terrorists, or whoever the hell else threatens this nation.
~ Marcus Luttrell
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mud and dust almost have personalities. They seem to be alive. Like scoundrels. True villains. Enemies.
~ Unknown
Never in your life have you been helpless—under somebody's heel. You never lived where your enemies held power over you, power to run your life or wipe it out. You can't understand. That's how come you stand there feeding me empty slogans!" Luciente bowed her head. "You crit me justly, Connie. Forgive me. I'll try to see your situation more clearly and make less loud noises in your ears.
~ Marge Piercy
mingled love and shame for our people, a mingled love and terror of white culture. And then (as if the result of these others), despair and a furious will to extinguish the self. My people's enemies have done this to me. But so have my own loved ones. My enemies took too much. My loved ones asked too much.
~ Margo Jefferson
The Mohaves were friendly with the Yavapais and the Quechans; enemies of the Pimas, the Maricopas, and the Cocopas; and merely tolerant of the Chemehuevis, who in the 1830s had moved into the valley below them on the western side of the river — an area the Mohaves yielded to them because they believed departed spirits lived there, making it dangerous.
~ Margot Mifflin
La misericordia, el amor al prójimo, el amor a los que nos aman, el amor a los que nos odian! —murmuró entre dientes—. Debemos ser misericordiosos incluso con nuestros enemigos. Este es el amor que Dios predicó entre los hombres, el amor que me aconsejaba la princesa María y que yo no sabía comprender. Es por esto por lo que siento morir. Si viviera, amaría a todos mis enemigos, pero ahora ya es demasiado tarde. ¡Ya lo sé!
~ Unknown