Top 100 Make Enemies Quotes
#1. With regards to political enemies Plato had a kill-and-banish principle ... In interpreting it , modern-day Platonists are clearly disturbed by it, even as they make elaborate attempts to defend Plato.
Karl Popper
#2. Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.
Alyson Noel
#3. Wow. What would you do if I said I was angry?'
'I would make fire rain from the heavens to smite your enemies with the flames of our shared rage.
Rachel Vincent
#4. We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.
Pythagoras
#5. Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. make words your finest weapons - a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d
Amanda Lovelace
#7. Assume you will make enemies. Work to make allies. Don't expect to make friends. Friends are a gift that happens over time.
Thea Harrison
#8. Scatter her enemies, And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks.
Mahatma Gandhi
#9. Tell the President to stand up to our enemies, not cower to them or make excuses for them!
Jim Gilmore
#10. It is important for a woman to have the duplicity to make good use of whatever gifts she might have, however valueless they might seem... You have to have the inner strength to pursue your goal, and not care how many enemies you make along the road. It is not easy.
Anne O'Brien
#11. Abraham Lincoln was often criticized for trying to make friends with his enemies instead of trying to get rid of them. He replied, Isn't that what I'm doing when I make an enemy a friend?
Sean Covey
#13. We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load.
Malcolm X
#14. Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.
Bhartrhari
#15. Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!
Pierre Corneille
#16. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.
Randy Thornhorn
#17. When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.
Ambrose Bierce
#18. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
G.K. Chesterton
#19. People with lies could never make friends. But people with trust could never make enemies. Both
Pepper Winters
#20. In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.
Nelson Mandela
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan
#24. You must expect to make enemies."
"I never expect to make anything else," he said.
Susan Kay
#25. As it stands, our patrols and bases are just targets, and the more firepower we use, the more enemies we make.
Daniel Suarez
#26. When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."
Abraham Lincoln
#27. The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.
Abraham Lincoln
#28. It just doesn't make spiritual sense to suggest that the evil all lies "out there" with our adversaries and enemies, and none of it is "in here" with us - embedded in our own attitudes, behaviors, and policies.
Jim Wallis
#29. We must always be careful never to make more enemies than we could handle if they were all to attack at once.
A.J. Darkholme
#30. I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.
Rupert Murdoch
#31. I'll never use force to try to make my enemies think the way I think, George - partly because I don't believe in it, and partly because it's useless. You can't destroy ideas by force, and you can't hide 'em by silence.
Kenneth Roberts
#33. Many things that I have accomplished in my life were not because I knew they would make me happy, but because it made my enemies unhappy.
Behdad Sami
#34. 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
#35. Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?
Abraham Lincoln
#36. I have a sense of humor; but over the years that sense has developed one blind spot. I can no longer laugh at ignorance or stupidity. Those are our chief enemies, and it is dangerous to make fun of them.
Charles Francis Richter
#37. Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies of someone's lackeys, his father had taught him. Better still, make them like you a lot.
Trudi Canavan
#38. Make friends not enemies. Compliment do not criticize. Like.
David Chiles
#39. Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.
Henry R. Luce
#40. At least when you were silent, you didn't make any new enemies.
V.C. Andrews
#41. Well, you know that old saying, "Keep your friends close and make out with your enemies.
Shae Ross
#42. One not need make peace with friends, only with enemies
Imi Lichtenfeld
#44. The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence
Henry A. Kissinger
#45. A man who tries to make the workmen believe that their employers are their natural enemies is indeed the worst enemy of workmen. For the employees of yesterday are the employers of today, and the employees of today can and will partly be the employers of tomorrow.
William J.H. Boetcker
#46. When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.
Laozi
#47. I don't make enemies, it's just I'm not afraid to speak my mind, which can sometimes mean people don't like what I am saying.
Alan Sugar
#48. One can make more enemies as a female with a brain I think.
Bette Davis
#49. I have destroyed my enemies when I make friends with them
Abraham Lincoln
#50. It is impossible to make peace with the Roman Catholic Church. It is one of the permanent enemies of all that is decent in human spirit.
Harold J. Laski
#51. I have known persons without a friend
never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.
William Hazlitt
#52. 110 This is the declaration of the Lord to my Lord: "Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies Your footstool."
Anonymous
#53. We make enemies, sometimes through no fault of our own, and sometimes our enemies become badges of honor.
Susan Rieger
#54. Only a matter of time before you make enemies as ruthless as you, after all you're the one raising the bar
Marlon James
#55. Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles.
Rona Barrett
#56. You don't make friends with friends. You have got to make friends with your enemies.
Yitzhak Rabin
#58. When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.
Thomas Merton
#59. Don't make excuses for your mistakes.
Don't try to please your enemies.
Don't run from your responsibilities.
Don't force your opinions on others.
Don't complain about things you can change.
Don't compare yourself to anyone.
Don't let undeserving people into your life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#60. It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter
an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#61. Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
Wangari Maathai
#62. In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small works of mine they try to make the whole rational medicine and anatomy fall, as if I were myself these noble disciplines.
Marcello Malpighi
#63. You can always make enemies of your friends,' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor.
Joe Abercrombie
#64. How silly of her not to realize that strongest friends make the best enemies; they always know where the weaknesses are hidden.
Diana Palmer
#66. What of it? If you don't make a few enemies every now and then, you're a coward - or worse. Besides, it was worth it to see his reaction.
Christopher Paolini
#67. We contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's enemies, when perhaps we invoke it because they are ours.
Hannah More
#68. Once you best a man, never gloat. Be generous and find something in his actions to praise. He won't enjoy being bested but he'll make a good face about it. Show him you appreciate it. Praise can win you a friend. Gloating will only ever make enemies.
John Flanagan
#69. People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
Paul Hindemith
#70. They'll be fine," Wickersham said. "Practice makes perfect."
I had to ask. "You practice running away?"
"We knew we'd make enemies. Other organizations have fire drills; we have oh-shit-someone-found-our-ass drills.
Scott Westerfeld
#71. Trust only the voices that make no sense, the ones inside of you, and that way you'll always be able to spot friends and avoid enemies.
Joseph D'Lacey
#72. If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.
Hunter S. Thompson
#73. I never get involved in anything and I don't make enemies either, I keep myself to myself.
Javier Marias
#74. My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.
Mahatma Gandhi
#75. President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"
Abraham Lincoln
#76. Destroying walls and stealing rare artifacts is one thing. People forgive. I'll make eternal enemies if I mess up people's hair and they have to cut some off.
Richard Roberts
#77. Enemies make better allies than frenemies.
Adam Grant
#78. Love thine enemies for the strengths they call up in us make them the instruments of our destiny.
Harriet Rubin
#79. That's the way it is, we can have different point-of-views but that should not make us enemies.
Ezekiel Mosoatsi
#80. To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.
Thomas Browne
#81. 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
#82. I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.
Maria Callas
#83. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui - these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.
David Foster Wallace
#84. Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
Bono
#85. A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.
Richard Holbrooke
#86. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
William Cowper
#87. People with secrets shouldn't make enemies.
People with destinies shouldn't make plans.
Laini Taylor
#88. It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.
Frank Dane
#89. If speech always wins, even if it's an atomic secret that's going to be broadcast to our enemies, it's easy to make a decision. Speech always wins. But it doesn't ... Liberty doesn't always trump equality or equality always trump liberty.
David Souter
#90. We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
Elbert Hubbard
#91. Let your critics make you humble, and your enemies make you wise. Learn from every stumble but let nothing keep you down, for you were born to rise!
Cory Booker
#92. Ever noticed how sisters, when they aren't best friends, make particularly vicious enemies?
-I See You Everywhere
Julia Glass
#93. This is no time to make new enemies.
Voltaire
#94. Long hair will make thee look dreafully to thine enemies, and manly to thy
friends: it is, in peace, an ornament; in war, a strong helmet; it ...
deadens the leaden thump of a bullet: in winter, it is a warm nightcap; in summer,
a cooling fan of feathers.
Thomas Dekker
#95. Hardship makes you strong.
Problems make you shrewd.
Critics make you brave.
Enemies make you wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#96. Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.
Ron Chernow
#97. Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.
Evo Morales
#98. True believers, comrade Gadin said, make the worst enemies if and when they become disillusioned with communism, or they finally see through the deception.
Tomas Schuman
#99. Our enemies have made the mistake that America's enemies always make. They saw liberty and thought they saw weakness. And now, they see defeat.
George W. Bush
#100. If we flaunt our wealth, we make enemies of people who have only their inner strength to get them through. And those are the people I want on my side.
Meg O'Brien
