Top 100 Make Enemies Quotes
#1. 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
#3. Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!
Pierre Corneille
#4. People with lies could never make friends. But people with trust could never make enemies. Both
Pepper Winters
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. You must expect to make enemies."
"I never expect to make anything else," he said.
Susan Kay
#8. 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
#10. 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
#11. Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.
Henry R. Luce
#12. 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
#13. We make enemies, sometimes through no fault of our own, and sometimes our enemies become badges of honor.
Susan Rieger
#14. Only a matter of time before you make enemies as ruthless as you, after all you're the one raising the bar
Marlon James
#15. 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
#16. You can always make enemies of your friends,' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor.
Joe Abercrombie
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. I never get involved in anything and I don't make enemies either, I keep myself to myself.
Javier Marias
#20. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
William Cowper
#21. People with secrets shouldn't make enemies.
People with destinies shouldn't make plans.
Laini Taylor
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. I think I have made it clear that I never intended to make enemies. But in an age when anti-foreign sentiment was running high, it was unavoidable that in my position as an advocate of open intercourse and free adoption of Western culture, I should make some adversaries.
Fukuzawa Yukichi
#25. Woodrow Wilson says that if you want to make enemies, try to change something! Well, I think there is an easier way to make enemies: Tell the truths!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#27. Satirists [10w]
I do best what satirists have always done ~
make enemies.
Beryl Dov
#28. I'm not joking you. I never joke people. Joke people and you make enemies. That's what I always say.
Ernest Hemingway,
#29. You don't love anyone either. An argument could be made that you only ever do one of three things to the people closest to you: make enemies of them, kill the people they love, or get them killed. Careful. You're on thinner ice than you've ever been with me.
Karen Marie Moning
#30. Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
Tacitus
#31. If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
#32. I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.
Elsa Maxwell
#33. We don't protect them because they're weak. We protect them because they are strong, and strong people make enemies.
Cinda Williams Chima
#35. You're an interesting man, sergeant. You make enemies like a craftsman.
Terry Pratchett
#36. In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.
Lynn Johnston
#37. Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.
Jacob M. Appel
#38. I could not recall the last time I had been so flagrantly insulted.
Don't make enemies, I told myself.
Swallow your pride.
Hold your tongue.
But the fact was, I had real difficulty with those particular virtues.
Jen Crane
#39. Any idiot or imbecile can easily make enemies; the important and the hard thing is to make friends easily and keep them as friends always!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#40. Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.
Joseph J. Ellis
#41. You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.
Carly Fiorina
#42. friendship. I want to say right here that the easiest way in the world to make enemies
George Horace Lorimer
#43. That's why we make enemies of our friends as soon as they start to drift, he thought, cos that way they get stuck with all our flaws, unlike when they're shared. Maybe brief friendships are best. If you pul out in time, the vices are all theirs.
Yuri Herrera
#44. Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.
John Lubbock
#45. 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
#46. Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.
Alyson Noel
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. make words your finest weapons - a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d
Amanda Lovelace
#51. Scatter her enemies, And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks.
Mahatma Gandhi
#52. Tell the President to stand up to our enemies, not cower to them or make excuses for them!
Jim Gilmore
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.
Bhartrhari
#57. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.
Randy Thornhorn
#58. When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.
Ambrose Bierce
#59. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
G.K. Chesterton
#60. 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
#61. If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan
#62. As it stands, our patrols and bases are just targets, and the more firepower we use, the more enemies we make.
Daniel Suarez
#63. 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
#64. The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.
Abraham Lincoln
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?
Abraham Lincoln
#71. 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
#72. Make friends not enemies. Compliment do not criticize. Like.
David Chiles
#73. At least when you were silent, you didn't make any new enemies.
V.C. Andrews
#74. Well, you know that old saying, "Keep your friends close and make out with your enemies.
Shae Ross
#75. One not need make peace with friends, only with enemies
Imi Lichtenfeld
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.
Laozi
#80. One can make more enemies as a female with a brain I think.
Bette Davis
#81. I have destroyed my enemies when I make friends with them
Abraham Lincoln
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 110 This is the declaration of the Lord to my Lord: "Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies Your footstool."
Anonymous
#85. Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles.
Rona Barrett
#86. You don't make friends with friends. You have got to make friends with your enemies.
Yitzhak Rabin
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. How silly of her not to realize that strongest friends make the best enemies; they always know where the weaknesses are hidden.
Diana Palmer
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
Paul Hindemith
#97. 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
#98. If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.
Hunter S. Thompson
#99. 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
#100. 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
