Top 46 Love Your Enemies Quotes

Love Your Enemies Quotes

Discover inspiring 'Love Your Enemies' quotes that promote forgiveness, understanding, and peace..

And God said “Love Your Enemy,” and I obeyed him and loved myself.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
-Benjamin Franklin

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
-Nelson Mandela

To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him or her, and he or she is no longer our enemy.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

The best way to defeat someone is to beat him at politeness.
-Josh Billings

Let us forgive each other—only then will we live in peace.
-Leo Tolstoy

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
-Abraham Lincoln

When we think of enemies, we think of people that are different from us, and we think of people who are less than us. Love is knowing that we're all equal.
-Ram Dass

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

 

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
-Dalai Lama

I'd rather be a happy person with a thousand enemies than a miserable person with no enemies.

Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.
-Mark Twain

Choose your enemies wisely ...you may know them , but you don't know who is standing behind them.

 

To Win Against Your Enemies You Have To Do The Opposite Of What They Expect You To Do.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
-Oscar Wilde

 

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.
-Mario Puzo

 

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

 

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

 

Instead of loving your enemies – treat your friends a little better.
-E.W. Howe

The only way to deal with enemies is to love them, forgive them, and turn them into friends.
-Nikki Sixx

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-John F. Kennedy

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Loving your enemies is easy when you realize that we are all human, all flawed, and all in need of grace.

 

When you love your enemies, you break the cycle of hatred.

 

Love your enemies, but don't let them walk all over you.
-Unknown

 

Anger and hatred are signs of weakness, while patience and love are signs of strength.
-Dalai Lama

The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.
-Unknown

 

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
-Coretta Scott King

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
-Norman Schwarzkopf

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
-Mahatma Gandhi

If you want to conquer the enemy, conquer yourself.
-Charles Manson

Let our love be like the misty rain, coming softly but flooding the river.
-Malagasy Proverb

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
-Rumi

I Love My Enemies Quotes

When you love your enemies, you free yourself from the burden of hatred.
-Unknown

 

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
-Lewis B. Smedes

 

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
-Gautama Buddha

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
-Elie Wiesel

 

You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
-Mahatma Gandhi

Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
-Maya Angelou

 

The only way to deal with all humans is to love them, forgive them, and see them as God does.
-Mother Teresa

Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
-Jesus Christ, in the Bible, Luke 6:27-28

You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven.
-Jesus Christ, in the Bible, Matthew 5:43-45