Quotes About Enemy

Don?t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.

When I have slain an enemy," explained a Brazilian philosopher-chief, "it is surely better to eat him than to let him waste.. . . The worst is not to be eaten, but to die; if I am killed it is all the same whether my tribal enemy eats me or not. But I could not think of any game that would taste better than he would. . . . You whites are really too dainty.

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

The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.

The goal was to defeat the enemy by limiting its ability to make good decisions.

The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.

The enemy is always in the mind.

You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance, Domingo said.

You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance

You're a peasant and a fool and I want my sword. You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance.

Contempt for one's own comrades, for the troops of the enemy, and, above all, fierce contempt for one's own person, are what war demands of everyone. Far better is it for an army to be too savage, too cruel, too barbarous, than to possess too much sentimentality and human reasonableness.

The republican regime, as well as the Marxists and the Jews, was "the enemy." And in his peroration he had shouted, "To this struggle of ours there are only two possible issues: either the enemy passes over our bodies or we pass over theirs!

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them.

To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!

The old pattern is powerful, so make sure to script the critical moves, because ambiguity is the enemy.

Ambiguity is the enemy. Any successful change requires a translation of ambiguous goals into concrete behaviors. In short, to make a switch, you need to script the critical moves.

Unfortunately, most Christians do not understand the battle they are fighting, the enemy that they face, or the means God has provided to overcome the temptations and deception of this present world system.

Because a trained mind is your strongest ally—and an untrained one your worst enemy.

These mental lessons were the most difficult of all. I was never sure whether I mastered them or not. If I asked the bow, it would only say, frustratingly, 'There's more to learn. Because a trained mind is your strongest ally—and an untrained one your worst enemy.