Quotes about enemy

Sharon E. Rainey - The Best Part of My Day Healing Journal

The Aramaic word for “forgive” means literally to “untie.” Hatred and anger had bound me to my pain. The fastest way to free the self from an enemy and all associated negativity is to forgive. Untie those bindings free yourself from that person’s ugliness.

John F. Kennedy -

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

Demosthenes -

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Aldous Huxley -

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

August Strindberg -

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

Debasish Mridha -

Never hate an enemy love them and transform them into a friend.

Erwin Rommel -

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.

Mahatma Gandhi -

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

Nagarjuna -

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.

Sun Tzu -

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Sun Tzu -

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

John Knowles - A Separate Peace

I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform I was on active duty all my time at school I killed my enemy there.

Mehmet Murat ildan -

Bad guys have only one enemy: The Universe but the good guys have two enemies: The universe and the bad guys!

Maya Angelou -

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

Paul Bamikole -

Never be in a hurry to condemn a friend never be in haste to embrace an enemy.

Cheryl Abram - Firing God

The world is not your enemy you are.

Leo Tolstoy -

Some one dear to one can be loved with human love but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

George R.R. Martin - A Game of Thrones

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1820-1824

As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Your enemies are not to be destroyed, grant them longevity to witness your success.

Sherwood Smith - Crown Duel

If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.

Marie Lu - The Midnight Star

I smile bitterly at him, then weave an illusion of his face across my own. Raffaele’s expression flickers in surprise for a moment before settling back into its pool of calm. “They may have a hard time finding me,” I reply.Raffaele gives me a tight smile in return. “Do not underestimate your enemies, Your Majesty,” he says.

Toba Beta - My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

When you know your enemy is invincible,run and hide, or may do business with him.

George R.R. Martin - A Clash of Kings

My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish

Karen Marie Moning - Iced

I’ve never paid any attention to time. Dancer says I’ve enjoyed a luxury most people never have. He hates clocks and watches and everything that has to do with time. He says people already have too many lost days and that most folks live in the past or the future but never the present, always saying stuff like “I’m unhappy because ‘X’ happened to me yesterday, or I’ll be happy again when ‘Y’ happens to me tomorrow.” He says time is the ultimate villain.

Pyreglide -

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then a friend of my enemy, is my enemy.

Paulo Coelho - Warrior of the Light

Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.

Paulo Coelho - Warrior of the Light

Do not be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.

Sunday Adelaja -

If the enemy attacks, it is because God is giving you much more

Jake Wood - Among You: The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken By War

But as much as this is a soldier's reason d'etre, it is not often that you hear a soldier explicitly talk about 'killing'. The k-word as a verb is instead often disguised and supplanted by any number of other euphemisms. In precise and technical military parlance, reflecting the ever more precise and technically removed means of killing, the 'enemy' becomes the 'target'. But for the soldiers who personally 'engage' these 'targets', these objects are colloquially 'slotted', 'dropped', 'hit', 'fra

Marius C. -

If you have to fight old enemies, you should do it with your own old soldiers.

Michael DeLong - A General Speaks Out: The Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

Every war and conflict that the United States enters has its own ROE [rules of engagement]. Contrary to what most people think, the U.S. military does not have a complete license to kill, even in wartime. We are not a barbaric state, and we do not enter any war with the intention of unilaterally killing anything in our path. We go out of our way to spare civilian lives, to keep those who are not in the war out of it--sometimes even at the expense of risking our own soldiers' safety. We do this b

Gift Gugu Mona -

A friend who betrays you is an enemy.

Mark Lawrence - Red Sister

The enemy of my enemy may be my friend … of course the friend of my friend is often a jerk.

George R.R. Martin - A Dance with Dragons

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, men said, but the enemy of my friend is my enemy.

shivangi lavaniya -

LIFE says Loneliness Is Friendly Enemy

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fLIFE says Loneliness Is Friendly Enemy -shivangi lavaniya

Bianca Scardoni - Inception

The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend.

Joe Abercrombie - Best Served Cold

To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike.

Esther Vilar - The Polygamous Sex

A friend or an enemy can tell me something about my subjective being, a casual lover can judge my body — the man I love judges my entire being. Every one of his caresses tells me how I am: attractive, desirable. Every one of his questions and answers tells me what I am: a person with whom he wants to enjoy himself, who interests him more than all the others he knows. By choosing me among all others, my love has made me unique; I alone in all the world am the one he loves, and no other. If I am l

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S -

Your friends are three and your enemies are three. Your friends are: your friend, the friend of your friend, and the enemy of your enemy. Your enemies are: your enemy, the enemy of your friend, and the friend of your enemy.

Marie Rutkoski - The Winner's Curse

A singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn't her friend, someone who was hers and yet would never be hers. Kestrel looked away from Arin. She swore to herself that she would never look back

Peter Tremayne - Shroud for the Archbishop

The person who has never made an enemy will never make a friend.

Alireza Salehi Nejad -

A fool friend always does something that the enemy wishes.

Joanne St.Clair -

Both friend and enemy, Faith leads us to the place where we lead ourselves.

George Yeoman Pocock -

It is hard to make the boat go as fast as you want to. The enemy of course, is resistance of the water, as you have to displace the amount of water equal to the weight of the men and equipment, but that very water is what supports you and that very enemy is your friend. So is life: the very problems you must overcome also support you and make you stronger in overcoming them.

Harold Hobbs -

One wide-awake persistent enemy may be worth twenty friends. Friends point out all the good things you do. You know all about that. Your enemies point out your mistakes. Get yourself a first-class enemy, cultivate him, and when you achieve success thank him.

Dan Wells - Fragments

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Lois McMaster Bujold - Shards of Honour

And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.

Somi Ekhasomhi - Always Yours

It’s the enemy of your enemy who is your friend Sophie, not the friend of your friend.

Lisa Kleypas - Love in the Afternoon

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands and dismantle your body with it.

Idries Shah - Reflections

If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.

Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses

I've been at some pains to tell you about myself because among other reasons I think we should know who our enemies are. I've known people to spend their lives nursing a hatred of phantoms and they were not happy people.

Steven J. Carroll - A Prince of Earth

And, to be true, an enemy's lair is an enemy's lair, no matter how comfortable or fancy it might appear.

Sherwood Smith - Crown Duel

Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?

Jim George -

God has given you all you need to fight against the enemy.

Nathaniel E. Quimada -

I don't need to fight and risk myself just to prove that I am more stronger.All I need is to show my smile that surely will irritate them.

Aesop - Aesop's Fables

United you will be more than a match for your enemies. But if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you.

Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom

What is important is not to fight, but to fight the right enemy

Emily Thorne -

•Engagement can be a commitment to love or a declaration of war. One must enter every battle without hesitation, willing to fully engage the enemy until death do you apart.

Fredrik Backman - Beartown

It doesn't take long to persuade each other to stop seeing a person as a person. And when enough people are quiet for long enough, a handful of voices can give the impression that everyone is screaming.

Abdulsalam Unshur -

Getting one of the weakness points of your enemies, could be your winning and your enemies' destruction

Toba Beta - My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Getting victory over a war that you can definitely win is a common thing. Winning a war that is totally based on enemy's terms is undisputable victory.

Robert Ferrigno -

The secret of victory is to find the point of maximum vulnerability and then strike. No matter your feelings. No matter how much you respect the enemy.

Sun Tzu -

One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.

Sunday Adelaja -

We need to be ready all the time for attacks of the enemy

Sunday Adelaja -

We need to resist all the attacks of the enemy and not get caught in his provocations

Chris Bradford - The Way of the Dragon

In order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.

Bangambiki Habyarimana - Book of Wisdom

Keep quiet and the enemy will reveal himself.

Bianca Scardoni - Inception

One misstep was all it took, and it all came crashing down. And they were right there waiting for it—eager and ready to bury me in the wreckage.

Bohdi Sanders - Defensive Living: The Other Side of Self-Defense

Don't make the mistake of underestimating your enemies.

Orhan Pamuk -

I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on...." - Conversations with Yahya Kemal

Taras Shevchenko - Kobzar

There are no such enemies So dire as good people, They will rob you, mournfully, And condemn you, weeping, They'll invite you to their home, Welcome you profusely, Ask you all about yourself, To mock and abuse you, Later, mock at you and jeer, To grab you for sure... Without enemies on earth Somehow one can endure.But those good people yet will Everywhere beset you, Even in the other world They will not forget you.

Dalai Lama XIV -

I took note of the Buddha's teaching that in one sense a supposed enemy is more valuable than a friend, for an enemy teaches you things, such as forbearance, that a friend generally does not.

Peter Adejimi -

when building a friendship bridge don't forget to construct a distruative path.

Bryant McGill - Voice of Reason

Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.

Anthony Horowitz - Point Blank

Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.

Toba Beta - Master of Stupidity

If you're confused about what to do,it's a sign that your enemy is winning.

Neal Shusterman - Bruiser

It was easier to deal with Tennyson when he was fighting me; but having him on my side was frightening, because now I didn't know who the enemy was.

Donna Lynn Hope -

At least with zombies I know my enemy and I know what to do: Aim and shoot. It's not so easy with people.

M.F. Moonzajer - HATRED AND MADNESS

To stop the terrorist, we need to give born to our own terrorist; Ruthless than the enemy.

Christina Engela - Black Sunrise

Not many Ruminarii warships had ever been captured intact by any enemy, and so for those the Ruminarii “invited” aboard their vessels, this was usually a one-way sight-seeing trip. For those who really want to know, Ruminarii Hammerheads have an extensive corridor network, the interior walls are heavily decorated, savagely militaristic and inevitably, close together. He strode down one. Lesser ranks seeing him, fell to the deck and groveled like their fingernails depended on it. There was a chor

Niccolo Machiavelli -

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

Bette Davis -

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

Friedrich Nietzsche -

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

General E. S. Bragg -

They love him most for the enemies that he has made.

Cicero -

Man is his own worst enemy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson -

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

Romans -

If thine enemy hunger feed him if he thirst give him drink.

Voltaire -

My prayer to God is a very short one "Oh Lord make my enemies ridiculous!" God has granted it.

Oscar Wilde -

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Sun Tzu -

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Sun Tzu -

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

Sun Tzu -

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

George Washington -

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Friedrich Nietzsche -

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson -

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.