Enemy Quotes

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Friend, Force

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

Best, Teacher, Tolerance

Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
Joel Osteen

Faith, God, Fear

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha

Mind, Evil, Him

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Ronald Reagan

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller

Wise, Worst, Yield

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

Best, Friend, Him

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

Work, Peace, Partner

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy

Freedom, Growth, Conformity

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi

Anger, Pride, Monster

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu

Fear, Yourself, Results

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Winston Churchill

Great, Against, Point

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
Thomas Jefferson

Wishes, Says, Believes

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, Business, True

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
Kurt Cobain

Nothing, Friend, Known

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy

Great, Truth, Lie

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu

War, Art, Fighting

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
Frank Sinatra

Love, May, Alcohol

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
George Washington

Experience, After, Themselves

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison

Fighting, Tyranny, Land

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Making, Mistake, Interrupt

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
William Shakespeare

Best, Seems, Mighty

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
William Shakespeare

Devil, Mankind, Consider

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Best, Another, Against

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Succeed, Until, Likely

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
Ray Bradbury

Thinking, Try, Creativity

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy

Freedom, Cannot, Growth

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Respect, Friend, Him

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Socrates

Courage, Away, Against

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Sun Tzu

Against, Lies, Himself

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