Enemy Quotes · Page 109

It better to have an enemy that slaps you in the face than a friend that slabs u at the back

— Anonymous

No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.

— Laozi

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

— Jose Marti

The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.

— Dalai Lama

There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.

— Akhmad Kadyrov

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

— James Gleick

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.

— Philip Sidney

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.

— Chuck Palahniuk

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our…

— Dale Carnegie

Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no…

— Alvin Toffler

“He is a stone, incapable of feeling anything, and I don't like being reminded that he's also human. I don't like to…

— Laura Sebastian

I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the…

— Abraham Lincoln

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

— William Temple

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat…

— Thomas Paine

Sometimes, unfortunately, when we make choices there are consequences but, ultimately, the longer we keep things down and hold them secret, the…

— Shari Wiedmann

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

— Stephen King

I took a deep breath, 'I took the nahlrout because I didn't want to faint. I needed to let them know they…

— Patrick Rothfuss

The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus dependent completely…

— Jeff Cooper

Presumably, as a Martial artist, I do not fight for gain or loss, am not concerned with strength or weakness, and neither…

— Takuan Soho

If religion commands universal charity, to love our neighbors as ourselves, to forgive and pray for all our enemies without any reserve;…

— William Law

The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable…

— Winston Churchill

It costs something to be a real Christian, according to the standard of the Bible. There are enemies to be overcome, battles…

— J. C. Ryle

I am the man you've needed all you life. I can give you whatever you wish before you even realize you are…

— Karen Marie Moning

Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath; Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath, Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife;…

— Edmund Spenser

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Know thy enemy and know thy self and you will win a hundred battles.

— Sun Tzu

The enemy is never more unnerving than when he's invisible.

— K.J. Parker

We don't criticize. Criticism is an enemy. You've got to make loving, positive suggestions.

— Dorothy Sarnoff

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

— Benjamin Franklin

I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

— Shana Alexander

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

— Paul Valery

“The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.”

— Floriano Martins

I am more afraid of King Alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.

— Stonewall Jackson

When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.

— Maria Callas

Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.

— Don Roff

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

— Agnes Smedley

When you're focused on your enemy, then you are ignoring your allies.

— Stacey Abrams

I don't want my kids to grow up in a country where the press is called the enemy of the people.

— Jim Acosta

“You must expect to make enemies." "I never expect to make anything else," he said.”

— Susan Kay

I don't like the saying keep your friends close and enemies closer. I want my enemy on a different planet.

— Wanda Sykes