Top 22 Respect Your Enemy Quotes
#1. The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.
Henry David Thoreau
#2. Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?
Elbert Hubbard
#3. Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions
Bryant McGill
#5. Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect. We were enemies if anything. He hated me, and I knew it, and he knew I knew it. I didn't like him, but I needed him, needed him to tell me something that none of the others could or would.
Ernest Gaines
#6. The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.
Benjamin Franklin
#7. Dont expect your enemies to ever love you, or even like you, only respect you
Imi Lichtenfeld
#8. 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
#9. A Liberal authority is someone or something that earns society's respect through making things happen that unify society and suppress its enemy.
Jonathan Haidt
#10. Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don't have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.
Ayn Rand
#11. You have to respect your enemy. Never, ever underestimate them. The second you do, they'll squash you. Be smart about them. Respect their abilities, even if they don't respect yours.
James Patterson
#12. After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.
Malcolm X
#13. Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies, combining with other causes, should effect, by depreciating our money, what the open arms of a powerful enemy could not.
Thomas Jefferson
#15. The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any.
Charles Bass
#16. I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect.
Ken Mehlman
#17. The secret of victory is to find the point of maximum vulnerability and then strike. No matter your feelings. No matter how much you respect the enemy.
Robert Ferrigno
#18. To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect.
Oren Arnold
#19. The best thing to give
your enemy is forgiveness;
to an oponent, tolerance;
to a friend, your heart;
to your child, a good example;
to your father, deference;
to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you;
to your self, respect;
to all men charity.
Swami Sivananda Radha
#20. I respect the media. But periodically things come up. Like the guy in Toronto [CP24 Interview]. This is what I run into, also. Everybody that helps you is not necessarily your friend. And everybody that fights you is not necessarily your enemy. So you always have to be on guard.
Mike Tyson
#21. Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.
Charles Caleb Colton
#22. I know very well that we are not all equal, nor can be so; but it is my opinion that he who avoids the common people, in order not to lose their respect, is as much to blame as a coward who hides himself from his enemy because he fears defeat. The
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
