The Enemy Quotes

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is

Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.

I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware.

Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .

A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.

Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men.

The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.

If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence.

If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.

To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy.

The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

Never allow your enemies to educate your children.

Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected.

Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.

I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.

We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition.

The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.

Attack the enemy's strategy.

Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy

My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly.

There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.

When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.

By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Our comfort zones can be our greatest enemy to our potential.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

I don't really have a nemesis, but I have a series of hundreds of small enemies that fuel me. Everyone I meet I assume is out to get me and that fuels my fire on a daily basis.

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

I don't know what the future may hold for me-or for any of us. But I want you to know that I am a man who likes having critics who are not enemies.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.

I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.

A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.

We need to replace the lies of the enemy with the truth of God; to do so we need to know the truth of God.

My scars are numerous, my flesh is powerless, my enemy is dangerous, but my God is glorious and His grace is totally sufficient.