Enemy Quotes
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Do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.
Ann Bridge
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Our thought is our big enemy, guided by ego that walks on evil path.
Aftab Alam
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Industry is the enemy of melancholy
William Francis Buckley
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A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
Francis Bacon
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The arms of the enemy are too short to box with God! In Christ, we have the victory.
Creflo A. Dollar
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The biggest enemy we face is anthropocentrism. This is that common attitude that everything on this Earth was put here for human use.
Eric Pianka
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
William Blake
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I think my worst enemy was myself. It's like I've been in my own way more than anybody else has been.
Kelela Mizanekristos
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Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us and strengthens himself; when we resist temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy.
Brigham Young
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War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
George Washington
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I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.
Martin Luther
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Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.
William Arthur Ward
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...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.
Soren Kierkegaard
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It's always interesting to step into the enemy's shoes, and figure out what they're like.
Natalie Portman
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Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.
William Shakespeare
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.
Ahmed Chalabi
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It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Sarcasm,” he said, “is like throwing a stick at your enemy when you’ve run out of bullets.” Siri
Colin Cotterill
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His enemies had counted on the lions taking care of Daniel. What they hadn't counted on was his God taking care of Daniel.
Tony Evans
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
Seneca the Younger
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Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.
Nelly Mazloum
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If we are discouraged because we lack repentance and excuse ourselves by saying that it does not lie in our power to obtain a contrite heart, because repentance can only be granted as a miracle of the Holy Spirit, it is a sign that our thinking has been clouded by the Enemy.
Basilea Schlink