The Enemy Quotes

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat.

I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.

When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway

Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.

If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.

The enemy of stability can be complacency

You know, maybe we don't need enemies." "Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.

Enemies make better allies than frenemies.

Don't forgive your enemies for their sake - do it for your sake.

There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.

I always took quite seriously the things that Chuck D. of Public Enemy had to say. He's always been someone I've learned quite a bit from and someone I pay a great deal of attention to.

For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Enemies strike at weak points.

God doesn't come to kill, to steal or to destroy. That's the enemy. God comes to give abundant life. Know your God so you don't get confused.

Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

That enemy warrior appears to be a formidable opponent. I relish the challenge.

Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future

Today you are standing in a position that would please the friend and would anger the enemy and all the infidels. You will be victorious against the enemies and you are causing them to suffer.

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies of the State.

I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury.

Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.

The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.

Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

There is no Muslim version of 'love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you' or 'if anyone strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also'.

The great enemy of morality is indifference.

I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.

Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.

Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.

In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.

Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!

Your enemies, your critics, the people that are trying to push you down-God can use them to push you up.

The Jesus I follow is the peacemaker, is one who says forgive your enemies, who worries about the poor, who worries about the poorest of the poor instead of the richest of the rich.

The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

All women should understand that a mammogram is nothing to be afraid of. It's not an enemy but a friend. Early detection is the key to the cure.

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

Defeat the enemies strategy.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

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