The Enemy Quotes

If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.

people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.

In faith, I'm a believer in the do's - you know, love your neighbor, love your enemy. I don't spend a lot of time thinking on the don'ts 'cause I can't get the do's right.

I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die.

In a country with millions of people & cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in a while.

Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.

If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.

When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.

Know your enemy - and learn about his favorite sport.

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

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

I don't have to be enemies with someone to be competitors with them.

Love your enemies-they may tell you the truth.

Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.

Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.

Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy.

He made enemies as naturally as soap makes suds.

Praise from an enemy smells of craft.

Complexity is the enemy of clarity

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win

With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent of the enemy.

The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress.

She's Beyoncé, and I'm [Jay-Z's] new protégée. When we see each other we say hi. We're not enemies, but we're not friends friends.

The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.

To the confusion of our enemies.

I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.

The penetrating brilliance of swords, wielded by followers of the Way, strikes at the evil enemy, lurking deep within, their own souls and bodies.

Free time is my enemy. I recognized early on I'm not a guy who should have a lot of time to contemplate the mysteries of the universe. I need to stay busy... That's just the nature of my demons.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy.

Now is not the time for making new enemies.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

One who has few must prepare against the enemy; one who has many makes the enemy prepare against him.

While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

I think most actors . . . We are insecure, in general. I think to be an actor, you need to have an ego, but then, our ego is our worst enemy.

I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.