The Enemy Quotes

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.

The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

When the enemy is driven back, we have failed, and when he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded.

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

Fighter pilots rove in the area allotted to them in any way they like, and when they spot an enemy they attack and shoot them down.... Everything else is rubbish.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon.

Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to the attack are signs that he will retreat.

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.

I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.

The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

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

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are now.

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.

Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.

There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.

Who’s gonna make you happy when you’re your own worst enemy?

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

Enemies were teachers in disguise.

It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.

Don't prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.

Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.

The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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.

And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.

A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies. He can go ahead and do anything as long as he believed in himself.

The enemy has always been able to point the finger of suspicion and/or guilt to Black leaders that they are enriching themselves at the expense of the people.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

Before facing you enemy, you must first face yourself.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.

As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.

Woman is the daughter of falsehood, a sentinel of hell, the enemy of peace.

The enemy's plan is to take away God's glory. God's plan is to have as much glory shown through your life.

Our losses have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.

One of the greatest enemies to vision is sight!