Enemies are people who become our foes and do things that are detrimental to our progress.
We should be very careful of our enemies and should be alert of their moves.
To handle our enemies better, I have curated some of the best enemies quotes for you.
Best Quotes about Enemies
A man with no enemies is a man with no character. ~ Paul Newman
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. ~ Marcus Aurelius
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction. ~ Aesop
They say you are judged by the strength of your enemies. ~ James Bond
Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults. ~ Benjamin Franklin
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them. ~ George Orwell
Keep quiet and the enemy will reveal himself. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
You cannot defeat an enemy you do not admit exists. ~ Michael T. Flynn
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde.
Top Quotes about Enemies
A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you have enemies, good that means you stood up for something. ~ Eminem
I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important. ~ Leigh Bardugo
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. ~ Isaac Newton
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? ~ Abraham Lincoln
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.~ Napoleon Bonaparte
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies. ~ Gilles Deleuze
Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you. ~ Yassir Arafat
Thoughtful Quotes about Enemies
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. ~ Mao Zedong
Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide. ~ Shannon Alder
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
He will never have true friends, he who is afraid of making enemies. ~ William Hazlitt
Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies. ~ Orson Scott Card
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. ~ Baltasar Gracian
To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies. ~ Sidney Sheldon
Enemies are people whose story you haven’t heard, or who’s face you haven’t seen. ~ Irene Butter
Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone’s friend. ~ Shannon L. Alder
Powerful Enemies Quotes
It doesn’t take but a few words to turn your best friend into your worst enemy. ~ Marlan Rico Lee
Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it. ~ Tim Fargo
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect. ~ Bryant H. McGill
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. ~ Sun Tzu
Friends never turn as enemies. If they did, they were never your friends at all. ~ Hark Herald Sarmiento
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. ~ Eric Hoffer
A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy. ~ Robert Jordan
The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all. ~ Lalah Delia
It’s sad when friends become enemies. But what’s even worse is when they become strangers. ~ Hayley Williams
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
People who are two-faced, usually forget which mask they are wearing at some point in their life. ~ Anthony T. Hincks
Thought-Provoking Quotes about Enemies
A bullet can kill the enemy, but a bullet can also produce an enemy, depending on whom that bullet strikes. ~ Tim O’Brien
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
The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy’s staying alive. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. ~ Oscar Wilde
Sometimes I just want to paint the words “It’s my fault” across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me. ~ Christina Westover
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
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. ~ C.S. Lewis
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson.
I truly believe that this collection of quotes about enemies will help you to deal with your enemies in a better way.
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