Enemy Quotes

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer

Means, Discover, Fears

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Andre Maurois

Fool, Woman, Might

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Orson Welles

Life, Age, Society

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.
Chuck Palahniuk

Worst, Cause, Upsets

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
J. Paul Getty

Change, Experience, Times

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
Cao Cao

Battle, Hand, Taking

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton

Courage, Alone, Live

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
Bryant H. McGill

Friend, Rude, Difficult

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
Colin Powell

Battle, Plan, Contact

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
Samuel Butler

Money, Long, Brain

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.
Colin Powell

Time, Opinion, Mad

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Samuel Butler

Work, Lost, Done

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.
Edwin Louis Cole

God, Best, Friend

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.
Jim DeMint

Change, Hope, Freedom

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean de La Fontaine

Nothing, Friend, Dangerous

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
David Seabury

Courage, Powerful, Afraid

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
Henry Miller

Love, Real, Won

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Antisthenes

Truth, Yourself, Friend

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
Gilbert Parker

Greatest, Friend, Memory

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Aesop

Friend, Him, Meet

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
Jonathan Swift

Good, Hurt, Friends

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph Addison

Happiness, Less, Virtue

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.
Miyamoto Musashi

Win, Knowing, Expect

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
Kurt Vonnegut

Nature, Friend, Sure

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
Henry Miller

Human, Race, Classics

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
Horatio Nelson

Hate, Opinion, Devil

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
Alice Thomas Ellis

Death, Past, Everything

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
Nagarjuna

Life, Anger, Real

Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.
Knute Rockne

Fool, Strong, Enough

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hands, Soon, Intention

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