Need Some Inspiring Quotes about Enemies?
What Are We Fighting For?
Looking for a few great and inspiring quotes about enemies ... you know, those people who are out to destroy or transform you into oblivion? Want a few hints about what is really going on? If so, these inspiring quotes, along with the others in the Art Gallery 's online collection can help ...
Enemies
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius (compare with monk and stream with woman)
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 men, charity.
- Arthur James Balfour
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- John F. Kennedy
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire, asked on his deathbed by a priest to renounce Satan
Critical Tasks
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
- Thomas Jones
Holding onto grievances is a decision to suffer.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
- Hamilton Mabie
You can make opposition work for you.
-unknown
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Challenges
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
- Henry Emerson Fosdick
If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. IF you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.
- The Bhagavad-Gita
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Forgiveness is impossible in human consciousness but very possible and manageable in spiritual consciousness.
- Eric Butterworth
Ex Friends
I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps “Oh look at that!” Then -- whoosh, and I'm gone. And they'll never see anything like it ever again. And they won't be able to forget me -- ever.
- Jim Morrison
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
- Mary Richards
