Friends Not Enemies Quotes

#1. Death was an old acquaintance. They had met before. They were not friends. Not enemies, either.

Dan Groat

#2. Make friends not enemies. Compliment do not criticize. Like.

David Chiles

#3. The outsiders have become kings and queens of the castle. It is a whole lot easier to sit outside the tent and throw firecrackers inside; it is much, much harder to sit inside the tent and govern not only your enemies, but your close friends as well.

Hal Rothman

#4. It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.

Frank Dane

#5. It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and offenders which must inevitably bring about the complete transformation of the existing order of things,
not only among Christian nations, but among all the peoples of the globe

Leo Tolstoy

#6. My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

Pink

#7. Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.

Lord Acton

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

Abraham Lincoln

#9. Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. The Fifth Commandment of the Decalogue demands that one honor one's mother and father. That is not about calling home. It is about this: Their God is your God, their friends are your friends, their debts are your debts, their enemies are your enemies and their fate is your fate.

George Friedman

#11. We are only human when we are part of a community ... I tried to isolate you, but it could not be done. I surrounded you with hostility; you took most of your enemies and rivals and made friends of them ... You were a part of them; they carried you inside them all their lives.

Orson Scott Card

#12. Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?

Akhenaton

#13. Enemies are a given. Friends are not.

James Frey

#14. The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. Therefore, your mistakes and your failures are blessings; opportunities for the best in parenting. And those who point out your mistakes are not your enemies, but the most valuable of friends.

William Martin

#16. Friends do not accumulate as easily as enemies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Abraham Lincoln

#18. I grunted. "She's not a delicate princess," I said. "She's a warrior. Warriors have enemies. Sometimes warriors get hurt." I felt my jaws clench. "And then their friends even things up.

Jim Butcher

#19. The nice thing about enemies is you know where they stand. This is not always true of friends."

--General Sergey Voloshin

Tom Clancy

#20. It was Martin Luther King who said, 'In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.' That is why I felt I could not be silent today.

Ed West

#21. We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.

John Christopher

#22. Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Abraham Lincoln

#23. His defences are good. But it is his friends that will bring him low, not his enemies, Lady Culter. Keep you out of his way. That's the best advice I can give you.

Dorothy Dunnett

#24. Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity.

Kurt Vonnegut

#25. General [De Gaulle], you must not hate your friends more than you hate your enemies

Clementine Churchill

#26. We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.

Elbert Hubbard

#27. Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?

Stephen King

#28. I have always been well liked, I think, always well regarded and respected, but having few enemies is not the same as having many friends, and there was no denying that I was, if not "lonely", more solitary than I'd hoped to be at that time.

David Nicholls

#29. To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Thomas Paine

#30. Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies

Lisa Vanderpump

#31. Jack said, 'The only friends we don't spare--who do not escape our scrutiny--are our lovers and those who become our enemies.

Robert Glick

#32. In all discussions of Hell we should keep steadily before our eyes the possible damnation, not of our enemies nor our friends (since both these disturb the reason) but of ourselves.

C.S. Lewis

#33. We can change people only by becoming their friends, not by becoming their enemies! Make friends with people so that you may be able to change them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#34. Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.

Yitzhak Rabin

#35. What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.

Lysander Spooner

#36. Do you ever feel like you're not even friends with sme of your friends?

Karen Salmansohn

#37. I kept myself aloof from the world not because I had enemies, but because I had friends there. Not because they damaged me, as this happens usually, but because they thought I'm better than I really am. It was a lie that I could not stand.

Albert Camus

#38. Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.

Bruno Jasienski

#39. O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me.
Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.

William Blake

#40. Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world ...

Chuck Palahniuk

#41. You will meet people in life who will just dislike you for no reason, not because there is anything wrong with you but because everything is going right for you. Until they master their own peace, they will always try to destroy yours.

Keysha Jade

#42. What is character, if not a man's measure of himself against his friends and enemies?

Christopher Moore

#43. When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

Samuel Johnson

#44. As you create authentic power, you discover that the people in your life whom you thought were your enemies are not really enemies from the point of view of your soul. From the point of view of your soul, they are your friends or you would not be together at all.

Gary Zukav

#45. Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.

Carter Heyward

#46. Enemies who vow not to see you achieve it and friends who say you can't do it ... ARE THE SAME ... !!! They just don't want you to make it happen! Stay away!

Israelmore Ayivor

#47. The world does not divide into enemies and friends, but into the weak and strong.

Paulo Coelho

#48. Life is not about the shadow you cast on your enemies but the shade you provide to your friends

Jeff Loveness

#49. A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

Richard M. Nixon

#50. We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.

Jean De La Bruyere

#51. Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?

John Boyne

#52. The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.

Bokar Rinpoche

#53. It is just as valuable to be censured by friends as it is splendid to be praised by enemies. We desire praise from those who do not know us, but from friends we want the truth.

Rene Descartes

#54. I'm going to say my name is Dorothy Sherman and I'm telling it like it is. I'm going to say my friends call me Dot, and I prefer my enemies not to call me at all.

Joe R. Lansdale

#55. The real test of one's belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one's friends but of one's enemies.

Clement Attlee

#56. It was about such people that he complained to Atticus: I will only say this, and I believe you know I am right: it was not enemies but jealous friends who ruined me.

Anthony Everitt

#57. A business career for a woman and her need for a woman's life as wife and mother, are not enemies at all, unless we make them so, but may be the closest and most co-operative friends and supporter of each other.

Hortense Odlum

#58. He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

Charles Caleb Colton

#59. The sea is a lonely and hostile place, Captain,' Jansen said coldly. 'It is always best not to make enemies of those who might be your friends. You never know when your ships may cross

Jocelyn Murray

#60. If every mortal looked at others as their friends, not as their enemies, the world would be a much better place, wouldn't it?

Morgan Rhodes

#61. Of course I don't understand. You never let anyone in. Not me. Not Sevro. Look how you treated Mustang. You drive friends away as though they were enemies.

Pierce Brown

#62. No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#63. It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

Rachel Caine

#64. Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

Joseph Conrad

#65. I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#66. The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.

Friedrich Schiller

#67. It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends

Milan Kundera

#68. Isn't the real scandal not that our religious leaders might be imagined walking across a road or talking as friends together in a bar, but rather that their followers are found speaking against one another as enemies, day after day in situation after situation?

Brian D. McLaren

#69. We are not enemies but we are just hostile to each other because of our different views and opinions.

Auliq Ice

#70. Friends change. Enemies change. Acquaintances change. God alone does not change.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#71. The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.

Charles Spurgeon

#72. I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

Dylan Thomas

#73. 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; and this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.

Aristophanes

#74. Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends

Alexis De Tocqueville

#75. Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

Kofi Abrefa Busia

#76. Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.

Gene Simmons

#77. The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends

Margot Asquith

#78. We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

Pierre Corneille

#79. We may not like it, but we need human friends, because we have human enemies whether we will or nay.

Robin McKinley

#80. The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.

Howard Zinn

#81. The enemies of your enemies are not always your friends, but they can still be useful.

James D. Sass

#82. How silly of her not to realize that strongest friends make the best enemies; they always know where the weaknesses are hidden.

Diana Palmer

#83. That was the way the world was; it was composed of a few almost perfect people (ourselves); then there were a good many people who generally did their best but were not all that perfect (our friends and colleagues); and finally, there were a few rather nasty ones (our enemies and opponents).

Alexander McCall Smith

#84. If you are going to set out to develop mystical powers to impress your friends and do other things to your enemies, the difficulty with it is that you will not be moving towards enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#85. You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#86. It is not wise to think of people as either friends or enemies as if you were the center of the universe; many are not aware of your existance!

Salman Al Odah

#87. You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.

James Baker

#88. Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

Tacitus

#89. Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that.

Malcolm X

#90. They were the best of friends as long as they did not know they were supposed to be enemies. The truth would do its damage soon enough.
- Brothers in Fire, by Jedtare

Marie Lu

#91. One not need make peace with friends, only with enemies

Imi Lichtenfeld

#92. And if the criticized person takes it quietly without rancor, not striking back but constantly loving, he will gather in friends faster than his critics can manufacture enemies.

Norman Vincent Peale

#93. Hatred begins to emerge like love and it's not too far from love.

Auliq Ice

#94. I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

#95. There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.

Lord Chesterfield

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

Abraham Lincoln

#97. If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

#98. I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Voltaire

#99. Our enemies make us strong, Miss Muffet, not our friends. Our friends will lie to us, tell us what we need to hear. Forgive us. We must keep a few good enemies on hand, always, to keep us sharp and teach us never to do anything that needs forgiveness.

Ann Rinaldi

#100. He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.

William Blake